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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:51:35 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:   Re: Intel XEON Phi: Linux only?
Message-ID:  <E7D09E4B-293F-4317-9F6B-62C0D0174C3C@samsco.org>
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On Jun 19, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> I bet the answer is something like "Get FreeBSD up on it or work with
> someone who can help you do that."
>=20
> It's a catch-22 just like GPU - unless ${COMPANY} has customers using
> it, they're not likely to dedicate resources, and no users will use it
> if it doesn't work, so .. who will break the cycle. :)
>=20
>=20

If I may be blunt here, there's no point in idle speculation when there =
are several FreeBSD committers who work for Intel and write Intel =
drivers for FreeBSD.  Let's ask them!

Scott





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