Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:15:13 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> 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: <86tzmfkn2m.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <11167f520712181658y2e043004sd0b4ae2ed38f4ee2@mail.gmail.com> (Sam Fourman, Jr.'s message of "Tue\, 18 Dec 2007 18\:58\:11 -0600") 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> <11167f520712181658y2e043004sd0b4ae2ed38f4ee2@mail.gmail.com>
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"Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: >> 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. They do not have the expertise required to implement those features. Those (very few) who do are busy with other things and / or not interested. > 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. It all comes back to what I said the last time this issue came up on the lists: there is not sufficient interest in these features, with the definition of "sufficient interest" being that someone is interested enough to either learn the necessary skills and write the code, or put enough money on the table to hire someone who already has those skills. These features will be implemented as soon as, and not earlier than, there is sufficient interest in them, according to the definition above. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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