Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:58:11 -0600 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no> Cc: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, mh@kernel32.de Subject: Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <11167f520712181658y2e043004sd0b4ae2ed38f4ee2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8663yvfsoc.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <86ve6wmgq4.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4a37b1e529bab094e2c50b7deca7df87@127.0.0.1> <200712182305.06426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <476828A0.2060901@chuckr.org> <11167f520712181219j5fe8fbbek6bf6429a856d2ec2@mail.gmail.com> <8663yvfsoc.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Dec 18, 2007 6:13 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> writes: > > The only reason I suggested a petition is to demonstrate to Nvidia > > that thee is a viable FreeBSD / PC-BSD userbase for amd64 > > my thinking was, they already have a i386 driver so an amd64 driver > > should not be too hard to get them to make. > > Then you have not understood anything at all. The ball is not in > nVidia's camp. I understand what has to be done, I just don't see why Nvidia can not donate the code (and 50% of the time) to the FreeBSD code base to make the amd64 Driver happen. and let the FreeBSD community fund the other 50% (a kind of bounty fund) I personally would be willing to send something like $50.00 USD a month to any fund that would be for this cause. I think a FreeBSD bounty Program (if there even is such a thing) is a Great idea. I can think of a bunch of things I would support 1 amd64 Nvidia support 2 better Wine support for FreeBSD, like amd64 support 3 a evdev driver for xorg (so all the buttons on my mx1000 mouse work) just to name a few. I am not complaining by any means, I just wish there was something I could do other than code to help. one day I will beable contribute code. Sam Fourman Jr.
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