From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 18 12:35:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B275016A419 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:35:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2F213C442 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:35:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-82-179.lns10.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.82.179]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBICZAPL017714 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:05:10 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:04:51 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <86ve6wmgq4.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4a37b1e529bab094e2c50b7deca7df87@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <4a37b1e529bab094e2c50b7deca7df87@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1654029.bdkDhVELZv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200712182305.06426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." , des@des.no, Martin Cracauer , mh@kernel32.de, Kip Macy Subject: Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:35:16 -0000 --nextPart1654029.bdkDhVELZv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Marian Hettwer wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:37:07 +0100, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav = =20 wrote: > > "Sam Fourman Jr." 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?=20 > > 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 > corporation, therefor not a democracy, but what is FreeBSD?), at > least a petition could show how many users would like to have amd64 > nvidia support for FreeBSD. These numbers could (!) be interesting > for nvidia. That's what you usually call a "market need" in captilsm > speak. Although I do have my doubts wether we could show nvidia that > our need as that big that nvidia would think "hej, wow, what a huge > market, let's get em" ;-) I believe a better way would be just asking > nvidia "Hej, how much money do you need to deliver and probably > maintain a amd64 version of your driver for FreeBSD". Instead of > signing a petition, users could donate... =46reeBSD is a code-ocracy. You supply the code you get the votes. (ish) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1654029.bdkDhVELZv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHZ7565ZPcIHs/zowRAvOKAJ9pGQo2uE52yxttt1BgbkySn5H43gCdFoVw kttOObaG5nHbIJBJedtEy/o= =wbxx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1654029.bdkDhVELZv--