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. Eventually, 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 where nVidia would be forced to spend large amounts of money to devise a way to be 100% compatible with FreeBSD, a user base magnitudes smaller than MS Windows 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 pin point exactly what FreeBSD needs to do to become fully compatible with nVidia 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? -- Carmel
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