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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:43:59 +0100
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp>
Cc:        Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>, Anders Bolt-Evensen <andersbo87@icloud.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates?
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On 17 Sep 2015, at 11:31, Lundberg, Johannes =
<johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:
>=20
> Anyway, I wish the foundation would support the graphics team by =
sponsoring this development=E2=80=A6

The Foundation did fund a lot of this work, and likely will again.  The =
problem is not willingness of the Foundation to fund it, nor =
availability of funds.  As with WiFi, it=E2=80=99s availability of =
people who have both the competence and interest to do the work and the =
availability to work as consultants for the Foundation.

Long term, the real solution is to convince GPU vendors to put as much =
effort into funding FreeBSD driver development as they do into funding =
Linux and Windows driver development.  The Foundation has been reaching =
out in this direction, but it=E2=80=99s far more compelling if people =
can document cases where lack of FreeBSD support has cost a vendor =
sales.  If you=E2=80=99ve bought a system with an nVidia or AMD GPU (or, =
ideally, if your company has bought a few thousand) because of lack of =
FreeBSD support from Intel, then let Intel know. =20

David




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