From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 13:42:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D161065676 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:42:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15508FC19 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:42:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [96.47.65.170]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8540846B2A; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:42:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 174BEB947; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:42:39 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:36:30 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p8; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <20111212192256.218280@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <20111212192256.218280@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112130836.31105.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:42:39 -0500 (EST) Cc: Dieter BSD Subject: Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:42:40 -0000 On Monday, December 12, 2011 2:22:55 pm Dieter BSD wrote: > Thomas D. Dean wrote: > >> I have been looking for a video card that FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64 > >> supports fully. Nothing, so far. > > Full support requires full documentation or full reverse-engineering. > nVidia is openly hostile towards FLOSS, I don't expect any > documentation from them in the forseeable future. Hmmm, you have a really odd definition of openly hostile. As an open source developer I am in regular contact with developers from nvidia who support the nvidia driver on FreeBSD that they actively maintain. OTOH, certain other open source projects have a known history of intentionally changing ABIs to break the nvidia driver. I find that a good bit more hostile than the open collobration I've had with nvidia. -- John Baldwin