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Date:      Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:45:59 -0500
From:      "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
To:        "Kjell Tore Ullavik" <ktullavik@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>, Alastair Hogge <agh@tpg.com.au>, Giulio Ferro <auryn@zirakzigil.org>
Subject:   Re: Nvidia amd64
Message-ID:  <11167f520709271945p7453b254gf60d10ed231f3ea4@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/27/07, Kjell Tore Ullavik <ktullavik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Remko Lodder wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:07:42PM +0200, Giulio Ferro wrote:
> >
> >>  Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> There is no driver.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> I sort of surmised that already...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> So, we are still years away from seeing a working nvidia driver,
> >>>> by the look of it...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> I guess what I am confused about, is there someone actively working on
> >>> the Nvidia requests, or does a capable individual need to take the
> >>> lead on this project?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>  And that's exactly what I'd very much like to know...
> >>  _______________________________________________
> >>
> >
> > >From what I know and what I can see; there is nobody actively working in
> > this region to get the things fixed to get this far. Ofcourse like rsync.net
> > you are free to sponsor these items if they are really important to you,
> > without that, do notice that people do this in their own free time, which
> > could either take some time before it's there, or might not be interesting
> > enough to work on currently (because of other things at work, private life
> > other code etc).
> >
> > It's not a matter of a capable individual taking the lead, it's a matter
> > of having someone capable enough working on this for some time, which can
> > be achieved by sponsoring that capable person for example.
> >
> > Cheers
> > remko
> >
> Maybe the FreeBSD project could provide an official site for bounties?
> Some things might have more interest among users than developers,
> and an easy way to create and donate to bounties for everyone to see may
> make it less of a barrier for people to put their money where their
> mouth is.
>
> Ubuntu seem to have something going, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bounties
>
>
>
if there was a bounty system for FreeBSD I would pledge $100 USD for
work that would help amd64 nvidia... heck I would even settle for
someone that wants to take lead and setup a paypal collection.

Sam Fourman Jr.



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