From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Sep 2 12:00:40 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7243FED3FC for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2018 12:00:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gurenchan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x233.google.com (mail-it0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C39076185 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2018 12:00:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gurenchan@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x233.google.com with SMTP id h20-v6so12386455itf.2 for ; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 05:00:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=7NdDgsi1boDWx705jfF/VhiM7B3JHXAJRTgIrFWdfCI=; b=rHxC3aoaqK+vqdrSVeRQVGZbLqasST4EUHuitVERGCPMu1P8VDGvdtxF99/7fqpsLd eKWhEHMiCjB7nyDNDvThR739/cymTPEBv5h7zY2qWgvyqv5UIjshP4++t+1JSSFOBEgQ BEgN6Zpbfue3+CoX34/L09BLbzd77nZbHXRiRgX6QKgs9egcsNXvMfipMO9W1MZ7zXFJ BRqGQDzXLTTi6DnLRH7ohlLH6tuBAZDsxEdiCg1SO5nv+hKMTF4MQzX6YfAQNIQa0/dz LKzIDnanygPLtdsLb9S5ofX1WIU+nnyZ0lcuhiUrLLDFhTuOaS3sNRed9YdE/tB9A5E1 jGOA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=7NdDgsi1boDWx705jfF/VhiM7B3JHXAJRTgIrFWdfCI=; b=UY4mTknGNgf+oh9LUVywF7B9fiMYgAt41eGLSLkMA5C0ifpCEBc7i4yZEt+DpzVvsT RG84q2QmWIKQxqaWVhqE1SwSh0feyTgVRzkDKGIE07qOeoUk7F7ZsRa7V4zPvhDzSd5U 9SMcmKTUFAdNezPcMWeNS76kGldA4rEVjGvF0WKzkH0LjQflV5ESvKeZwbnuy4EWHIKu ZLXwx/wkgNRVR+tfR2+ZWy2JKJ31q2R+R7hp7jA9vFDETOlVslv4X0Wdr4I4cde6a+tt /pr6AoJPWagYKkqHe1U4ByVcRnkzwHG/rfHsVGjhEuQgtagnzbVWbw2MD2A02//CeT6H PGag== X-Gm-Message-State: APzg51D1zpPAQvGd0cSBw3YZTFDeDxaCWyAz9jOB783U1CyejyJMlbm5 wbgDVxkgkISbvA2qa1CbUtf9rrRTXcW8AEgZ0es= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ANB0VdbaDQkNVJ2maRPpWwivPxnFWqaCcWjbbc0hCxfkluZrNxGEMZ8PyQOvbSU/6LoYSQ6Kq82CVn/qNWbIMp0neUE= X-Received: by 2002:a02:1643:: with SMTP id a64-v6mr16934887jaa.133.1535889639476; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 05:00:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20180902114502.e59ab940d98cd43cd6f1ca11@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20180902114502.e59ab940d98cd43cd6f1ca11@sohara.org> From: blubee blubeeme Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 20:00:28 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD OpenCL/CUDA nVidia To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: CeDeROM , FreeBSD , Valeri Galtsev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.27 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 12:00:41 -0000 On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 6:47 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 23:07:46 +0200 > CeDeROM wrote: > > > What is the current AMD/ATI support for Open-Source? Do they provide > > full GPU specification as opposed to nVidia? > > AMD/ATI opened up their interfaces and some core source code about > a > decade ago they still produce a closed source driver of their own but they > support the open source Linux video driver apparently enthusiastically > (according to one report it is now faster than the closed source one). > > Both Intel and AMD/ATI provide open source OpenCL stacks > > It really is nVidia that is the odd one out - but they do hold the > high end of the hardware, the cards gamers and cryptocurrency miners lust > after are all nVidia. > > -- > Steve O'Hara-Smith > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If you could see the proprietary codebase that some of these companies ship, you'd understand why they hesitate to open source it.