Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:10:56 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling=20Sm=C3=83=C2=B8rgrav=20 <des@des.no>, ?=@kernel32.de Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <4a37b1e529bab094e2c50b7deca7df87@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <86ve6wmgq4.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <86ve6wmgq4.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:37:07 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> writes: >> I wonder if having a petition signed by a bunch of people would help >> this along, because I believe that amd64 3D accel on nvidia, is life >> or death to PC-BSD in a year or so. > > What, exactly, do you think a petition would achieve? Can a petition > write code? Can a petition pay somebody to write code? Petitions may > work in a democracy, but neither nVidia nor FreeBSD is a democracy. > While this is true (by the way, what is FreeBSD? nVidia is a corporation, therefor not a democracy, but what is FreeBSD?), at least a petition could show how many users would like to have amd64 nvidia support for FreeBSD. These numbers could (!) be interesting for nvidia. That's what you usually call a "market need" in captilsm speak. Although I do have my doubts wether we could show nvidia that our need as that big that nvidia would think "hej, wow, what a huge market, let's get em" ;-) I believe a better way would be just asking nvidia "Hej, how much money do you need to deliver and probably maintain a amd64 version of your driver for FreeBSD". Instead of signing a petition, users could donate... ./Marian
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