Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:02:31 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <20071219110231.rp3lts95ao8wwwgo@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <4a37b1e529bab094e2c50b7deca7df87@127.0.0.1> References: <86ve6wmgq4.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4a37b1e529bab094e2c50b7deca7df87@127.0.0.1>
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Quoting Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> (from Tue, 18 Dec 2007 =20 12:10:56 +0100): > > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:37:07 +0100, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> = wrote: >> "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> writes: >>> I wonder if having a petition signed by a bunch of people would help >>> this along, because I believe that amd64 3D accel on nvidia, is life >>> or death to PC-BSD in a year or so. >> >> What, exactly, do you think a petition would achieve? Can a petition >> write code? Can a petition pay somebody to write code? Petitions may >> work in a democracy, but neither nVidia nor FreeBSD is a democracy. >> > While this is true (by the way, what is FreeBSD? nVidia is a =20 > corporation, therefor not a democracy, but what is FreeBSD?), at =20 > least a petition could show how many users would like to have amd64 =20 > nvidia support for FreeBSD. More or less they know already. Just have a look at the nVidia forum =20 and count the messages there. Bye, Alexander. --=20 The PILLSBURY DOUGHBOY is CRYING for an END to BURT REYNOLDS movies!! http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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