Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 03:45:50 -0500 From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggested upgrade for a GeForce GT 450 Message-ID: <CAFbbPug9vTt63cEXKUcrXWc=t0asiLK4qwsULGRD8v5b==P4oA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaX=qrWvST3NWrkDUdWUfVw80-P7J%2BWxGa_cwZ%2BT51wVbsA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFDHx1LRvcJHNnYFJB=JQzk_p%2B17i9e2qEHZOMGRCojiyaV5aw@mail.gmail.com> <CAFbbPugv13CZVVyZAtshPtn-kKM=7oHon-iQoy8dSHH2N9z3xQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXmdUnQANVBwottmu8j_LuB9vJubK=sQxBUGRfQEFMxskA@mail.gmail.com> <CAFbbPuhOQYwJpX57cciXgH9EKv2OmtJBANkFc99UHib-Gj-Q0g@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXmEjdkxWLRugWsJf6_1JqLYuNQF=xaaMANhiQ5CD=Whmg@mail.gmail.com> <CAFbbPuj8iswz73pZFtyxSjWmasCMgvozbVjNRN-NvE=gn_uT3A@mail.gmail.com> <CAFbbPujKK9_2vttv%2BL7Nj8owarYyf7XiRjBY02JhzgaL-ugYQg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXkmHRZD_ER3y9KQG3NLFjexDY7H8YtZ1EMj4aMv1MMyGw@mail.gmail.com> <CAFbbPujRvZd3yGi3inR=xuePPW%2B8QR2-9CUT3%2BWLdjJ29M0sCw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaX=qrWvST3NWrkDUdWUfVw80-P7J%2BWxGa_cwZ%2BT51wVbsA@mail.gmail.com>
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I stopped trying to use emulation long ago. It never worked right.
Ok, that's actually an overstatement.
It worked sometimes.
Compile something simple w/ nvcc and if it was simple enough, sure it would
work. Try something a bit more complex, you were sh*t out of luck.
Tell ya what, I still have my GTX in my machine doing nothing:
# pciconf -vl | fgrep -iA 2 -B 1 GTX
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
device = 'GM206 [GeForce GTX 950]'
class = display
subclass = VGA
I'll go through the motions of getting the GPU offloading w/ the emulation
layer working and if it does, I'll eat my words. ;)
~Paul
On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 2:46 AM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 2:27 AM Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I post how I like. If you don't like it, you're free to not respond and
>> ignore my messages.
>> If you can't follow, that's on you.
>>
>> No, the support with linux emulation is extremely limited. It's not
>> usable in the least.
>> If you plan on using CUDA, use Linux.
>>
>
> Name one such limitation because in 25+ years of using FreeBSD and linux
> emulation I have never found a serious difference between what can be done
> in emulation vs. what can be done on an actual linux host (except for cases
> where the program in question wanted a newer kernel then the one being
> emulated but since CUDA has been around for a while now this is a
> non-issue). I even found a few workarounds posted on the net on how to
> get the nVidia driver to support CUDA natively (none of them official but
> they still exist). So I will ask again if it can be made to work in any
> way at all (even if a told hack) then it is incorrect to say CUDA is not
> possible with nVidia on FreeBSD (yes very hard but not impossible).
>
> --
> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
>
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