From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 5 07:58:42 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34196DFAC2C for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 07:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71FE6F8D6 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 07:58:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ppp121-45-11-215.bras1.adl4.internode.on.net (HELO leader.local) ([121.45.11.215]) by ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 05 Dec 2017 18:23:29 +1030 Subject: Re: CUDA under FreeBSD To: FreeBSD References: <34331.107.77.207.211.1512384505.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> From: Shane Ambler Message-ID: <0545699d-9df7-ced2-4990-27e3ecb8e531@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 18:23:27 +1030 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <34331.107.77.207.211.1512384505.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-AU Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 07:58:42 -0000 On 04/12/2017 21:19, galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: > > On Mon, December 4, 2017 4:24 am, Carmel NY wrote: >> Out of morbid curiosity, I was wondering if anyone could tell me >> the real reason that Nvidia does not support CUDA under > > Arrogance would be my guess. The morbid part is that they give us the linux libcuda, so we should be able to run linux binaries that use cuda, just not native apps. >> FreeBSD? Also, what are the realistic expectations for it getting >> supported shortly? > > Zero is my estimate. The way to let one's steam about them is just > not to buy ther hardware. Their attitude to open sourse and > unwillingness to disclose details of their hardware was always much > worse than that of their competitors (ATI/AMD, matrox...). > > This is just my opinion based on my subjective observations. I'm sure on an episode of bsdnow, they mentioned asking an nvidia dev at one of the conferences and they said there shouldn't be any technical reason, it just isn't enabled in the build and they would look into it. Still hasn't helped any. -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler