Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 19:42:47 -0800 From: Matthew Macy <mmacy@nextbsd.org> To: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> Cc: "" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: End of year Xorg status rant Message-ID: <159581f5c78.11113616363629.8724982795793407213@nextbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3E.8B.31287.AED68685@dnvrco-omsmta01> References: <20161230163653.54909631@rsbsd.rsb> <15952279f17.e0be0d8c34357.732964216134709731@nextbsd.org> <20161231120453.13adf858@thor.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <3E.8B.31287.AED68685@dnvrco-omsmta01>
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---- On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:47:23 -0800 Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com> wrote ---- > > excerpt from O. Hartmann: > > > I think we face a political problem, not so much a man-power-driven one. nVidia provides > > a BLOB, this BLOB works well even with the most recent hardware of theirs, but it lacks > > in support for OpenCL and their own CUDA acceleration framework. I never understood why. > > I asked nVidia - and they told me, that there is no request from the community ... so > > far. That is a claim and I can not hold something against it, since it seems obvious > > that I'm, with some other single people, are the only one compared to millions of others > > - de facto Null so to speak. > > > And AMD? Well, 2006 or 2008 the company claimed to support the opensource community > > better than before, but that left in history to be a insubstancial claim. Their hardware > > might be a great deal even for GPGPU purposes with OpenCL, but this is Linux only as far > > as I can tell. > > I too noticed that nVidia and AMD were not open-source-friendly with their graphics; remember Linus Torvalds' comments and cusses regarding nVidia. > > That's why I chose Intel on my last computer hardware purchases; I use Intel on-CPU graphics. > Yes, we can leave it to AMD to snatch defeat to defeat from the jaws of victory. Nonetheless, companies management turns over and their policies change. AMD is *currently* very much committed to bringing their open source Linux driver up to par with what they have on Windows. They are also committed to a fully open source high performance GPGPU compute stack. They should be rewarded for what their *current* policies are if we want to encourage that. If they again back off from that stance - then yes, leave them to their own devices. -M
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