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Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?
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Mark Blackman wrote:
> "C. Bergström" wrote:
>> This project is by far too much for a gsoc student not to mention who
>> would mentor it...  People throw around the term "GPGPU/CUDA" too much
>> and don't realize that it breaks down into...
>
> fair point, I assumed it was a simple driver question.
>
We (PathScale and some volunteers) are working on this problem and doing 
our best.. (without funding or gsoc).. More help would be great, but 
there's a learning curve few are brave enough to endure.  We have 
published a large amount of documentation [1] and made it as easy as 
possible, but still need help..


./C

#pathscale - irc.freenode.net (All things compiler and GPGPU welcomed)

[1] http://github.com/pathscale/pscnv/wiki