Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 20:00:28 +0800 From: blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD OpenCL/CUDA nVidia Message-ID: <CALM2mEkV-OU%2B4WRYQK3QpAFfQKy%2B6m5sWsbShwLhASGUR6ZwhQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180902114502.e59ab940d98cd43cd6f1ca11@sohara.org> References: <CAFYkXj=vMHsd6YXTEWhLvH7Xz4L6UwdfrFWqRj0rj4rS7UtE5Q@mail.gmail.com> <CABHD1wTN9gzQbfURNGqsqEv36QYQh60EZvNFzNO4c-X47G_sPw@mail.gmail.com> <CAFYkXjnBWjwUfiOFbqARrX9HNpJRWVEiSsHcC79Yd7Ec75QOBQ@mail.gmail.com> <SN1PR20MB210901AA55C18138EB2206B5800E0@SN1PR20MB2109.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <CAFYkXjnynmiykYnENt5KDQs%2Bweo=V96na7OVHv5y0FiKAMNb=Q@mail.gmail.com> <f3825f59-e565-133d-7828-15f297c9a437@kicp.uchicago.edu> <CAFYkXjmZcus_eQ4bCfh6qSZaVvDhboej7BCVHQi6R9wtS4QiOg@mail.gmail.com> <20180902114502.e59ab940d98cd43cd6f1ca11@sohara.org>
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On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 6:47 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 23:07:46 +0200 > CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> wrote: > > > What is the current AMD/ATI support for Open-Source? Do they provide > > full GPU specification as opposed to nVidia? > > AMD/ATI opened up their interfaces and some core source code about > a > decade ago they still produce a closed source driver of their own but they > support the open source Linux video driver apparently enthusiastically > (according to one report it is now faster than the closed source one). > > Both Intel and AMD/ATI provide open source OpenCL stacks > > It really is nVidia that is the odd one out - but they do hold the > high end of the hardware, the cards gamers and cryptocurrency miners lust > after are all nVidia. > > -- > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If you could see the proprietary codebase that some of these companies ship, you'd understand why they hesitate to open source it.help
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