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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