Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 14:54:26 +0000 From: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD OpenCL/CUDA nVidia Message-ID: <SN1PR20MB210901AA55C18138EB2206B5800E0@SN1PR20MB2109.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjnBWjwUfiOFbqARrX9HNpJRWVEiSsHcC79Yd7Ec75QOBQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFYkXj=vMHsd6YXTEWhLvH7Xz4L6UwdfrFWqRj0rj4rS7UtE5Q@mail.gmail.com> <CABHD1wTN9gzQbfURNGqsqEv36QYQh60EZvNFzNO4c-X47G_sPw@mail.gmail.com> <CAFYkXjnBWjwUfiOFbqARrX9HNpJRWVEiSsHcC79Yd7Ec75QOBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 11:44:02 +0200, CeDeROM stated: >Thank you Tommy.. bad news.. how did that happen for nVidia to become >worst GPU driver provider to FreeBSD lagging even behind ATI/AMD and >Intel.. I guess these are closed-source drivers so we have nothing to >do here.. I was always buying nVidia only because of trust in their >best drivers.. but that needs to be revised I see :-( > I don't believe that is a correct interpretation of the problem. Several years ago, FreeBSD was unable to support nVidia's 64 bit drivers. Eventuall= y, that problem was alleviated. However, and this is what I have gathered from reading chat forums dedicated to nVidia, FreeBSD still does not properly handle all of the features that nVidia offers in a manner similar to MS Windows (naturally) and other *.nix operating systems. A business model whe= re nVidia would be forced to spend large amounts of money to devise a way to b= e 100% compatible with FreeBSD, a user base magnitudes smaller than MS Window= s or other *.nix operating systems, would prove to be a losing strategy. A far more easily implemented plan would be for the FreeBSD developers to p= in point exactly what FreeBSD needs to do to become fully compatible with nVid= ia products. Microsoft works closely with nVidia, as well as some other *.nix developers to assure that their products are compatible. Why isn't FreeBSD taking this approach? --=20 Carmel
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