From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 10 03:13:55 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 C52D5E80381 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 03:13:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-cmomta01.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.227]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8DDD518AB for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 03:13:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from raspberrypi.bildanet.com ([65.186.81.207]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id Ns0negrDFfiK5Ns0qe4dpB; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 03:10:44 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.143] by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1eNs3l-00082O-Cm for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 03:13:45 +0000 Subject: Re: CUDA under FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <34331.107.77.207.211.1512384505.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <0545699d-9df7-ced2-4990-27e3ecb8e531@ShaneWare.Biz> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 22:13:40 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfMQ/F6U4zwVgjL6X5stXsQhJ5nqE0Y8pIFZeh1p0cT4+ksLz6k0JcDjAgJYda+4NKU9M3fmBkxt2kWzWzK0EidYVYlJLNuT4zvd2WI+7Af8KecDeXBS/ r5Mu2Plam3N8fxxAqRtf+tVqWtdW7Vx+HFb+412iUyVIuCtoqk2p3owqCyAas6LZoP7H2t6Zx06iQMgJnvWgJblV1tBTxL41Ups= 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: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 03:13:55 -0000 On 12/9/2017 9:45 PM, Jan Beich wrote: > Shane Ambler writes: > >> 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. > Modern CUDA toolkit is 64bit but runtime only works on 32bit (bug 206711). > Building as -m32 is probably still possible but may not fit all workloads > nor run as fast. > >>>> 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. > Just like Vulkan, just like KMS, just like encoding/capture acceleration. > NVIDIA always conveniently forgets about FreeBSD. However, the ailment > isn't really specific to NVIDIA but affects most binary blob vendors. > For one, Widevine CDM is maintained by Google but EME itself was pushed > to W3C by Netflix, a FreeBSD vendor which conveniently forgot a browser > can run on FreeBSD. > What is FreeBSD market share? Could be the market share of FreeBSD is so small it is not worth their time? Maybe the FreeBSD developers are too abrasive? Or maybe some other reason? Linux is everywhere so maybe that is why Linux gets all the glory?