From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 22:22:00 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 8DF97106564A for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:22:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterbsd@engineer.com) Received: from mailout-us.mail.com (mailout-us.gmx.com [74.208.5.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35E608FC0A for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8604 invoked by uid 0); 13 Dec 2011 22:21:59 -0000 Received: from 67.206.187.239 by rms-us007.v300.gmx.net with HTTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:21:55 -0500 From: "Dieter BSD" Message-ID: <20111213222156.218250@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Authenticated: #74169980 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: GMX.com Web Mailer x-registered: 0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-GMX-UID: U7WVbiU03zOlNR3dAHAhnlR+IGRvb4BS 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 22:22:00 -0000 John writes: > 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. I wasn't aware that nvidia was maintaining an open source driver for their cards.  When did this happen?  Seems like this would have been major news. Matt writes: > Vidia binary blob and the support from nVidia on the forums is generally > accepted as a best-effort endeavour. Binary blobs are completely unacceptable, and there are multiple good reasons for this.  Do we really need to rehash this over and over again?