From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 20:33:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8188106567A for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:33:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gautham@lisphacker.org) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203548FC26 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:33:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb33 with SMTP id 33so1217877wyb.13 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:33:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.23.129 with SMTP id v1mr7467501wev.49.1285187582985; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:33:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.50.81 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:33:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100820165427.000072f8@unknown> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:33:02 +0100 Message-ID: From: Gautham Ganapathy To: bf1783@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Eduardo , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:33:05 -0000 On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:10 PM, b. f. wrote: > > Okay. =A0Maybe we'll see a convergence of the two in the medium/long > term. =A0Right now, interested parties need to look at the available > hardware, and then talk to the vendors about whether they would be > willing to support a port of their software to FreeBSD, and > _specifically_, what is needed. =A0For example, we faced a similar > situation with the newer Nvidia GPUs not so long ago. =A0Some key > developers like John Baldwin got involved, and determined what changes > needed to be made in the FreeBSD base system in order to support the > newer hardware and graphics drivers. =A0It would have been nice to get > an open-source driver, but since Nvidia wasn't willing to do that, > FreeBSD =A0chose to meet them half-way. =A0Probably a similar effort will > be needed for CUDA. =A0Someone should look at the requirements, and have > a _detailed_, _sustained_ discussion with Nvidia and the FreeBSD > Foundation. =A0If, for example, KMS is needed, then the Foundation may > be willing to invest in that, because it will probably also be needed > for new graphics drivers and Xorg, anyway. =A0Robert Noland was working > on it, but he was doing it largely by himself in his spare time, and > then he got a new job and had to slow down considerably, if not stop > altogether. > ... Hi I remember seeing a post sometime back (either here or on nvnews) about someone getting a prebuilt linux-based CUDA application to work freebsd's linuxulator. Does this mean that the driver is ready, and just the toolchain has to be ported? Regards Gautham Ganapathy