Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:03 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPUs on FBSD? Message-ID: <b79ecaef0911200814g4fc2c3a0j3cd27f55c0e136fb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <19206.45528.672400.407804@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20091120114657.GA22584@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <b79ecaef0911200656g5d1cd95fud5df2ce3aa249f09@mail.gmail.com> <19206.45528.672400.407804@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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2009/11/20 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>:
>
> Chris Rees writes:
>> =A0> Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch?
>> =A0> Any advice?
>>
>> =A0Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no
>> =A0amd64 driver.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0There was a posting within the last 24 hours on one of the
> FreeBSD mailing lists that pointed to a post indicating nVidia is
> working on native {i386, amd64} drivers. =A0The post was dated
> November 5th; it provided no expected release date beyond "when it's
> done". =A0My personal _estimation_ would be "when 8.0 ships, or soon
> after".
>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Robert Huf=
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Now that could be very interesting....
Thanks for your alertness! I couldn't find the post you mentioned,
though there is
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=3D2078598&postcount=3D415
Chris
--=20
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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