Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:48:16 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp>, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>, Anders Bolt-Evensen <andersbo87@icloud.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates? Message-ID: <20150917124816.GT3158@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <114F22EF-61E3-4D75-84FB-9D6E3FBCB8F3@FreeBSD.org> References: <55FA7324.5010603@icloud.com> <CAASDrV=D6viCDJx9yT5CiNf1ukiz_Rp1k5wqpk92xSyiNQTEqg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPS9%2BSuYq6JqzX=aHNgD=y5SUnBQ4x_Amk-6B0bvKc6kRQ5YVA@mail.gmail.com> <CAASDrVnxZ8MUmgCO-cFRVatUMQS1LHU-4XASSJckzp_FJbvd2w@mail.gmail.com> <09A515F2-44BA-4DF0-9792-D4C56EEB9D7C@FreeBSD.org> <CAASDrVnuVfOsJvNuOsAQaHYRQqFenH%2B3=wNDBO5GR5j2KgxsxQ@mail.gmail.com> <114F22EF-61E3-4D75-84FB-9D6E3FBCB8F3@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:43:59PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > On 17 Sep 2015, at 11:31, Lundberg, Johannes <johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote: > > > > Anyway, I wish the foundation would support the graphics team by sponsoring this development... > > The Foundation did fund a lot of this work, and likely will again. > The problem is not willingness of the Foundation to fund it, nor > availability of funds. As with WiFi, it's availability of people > who have both the competence and interest to do the work and the > availability to work as consultants for the Foundation. > > Long term, the real solution is to convince GPU vendors to put as > much effort into funding FreeBSD driver development as they do into > funding Linux and Windows driver development. The Foundation has > been reaching out in this direction, but it's far more compelling if > people can document cases where lack of FreeBSD support has cost a > vendor sales. If you've bought a system with an nVidia or AMD GPU > (or, ideally, if your company has bought a few thousand) because of > lack of FreeBSD support from Intel, then let Intel know. Impotant: if you already buy Intel system -- Intel will be ignored you, only future sales important.
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