Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 23:47:28 +0100 (BST) From: Sam Smith <S@mSmith.net> To: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Christian Zander <czander@nvidia.com> Subject: Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.64.0607022340500.2397@sebastian.foriru.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1151877095.1085.19.camel@genius.i.cz> References: <20060629111231.GA692@wolf.nvidia.com> <20060702114950.bf39e312.mmendez@energyhq.be> <1151877095.1085.19.camel@genius.i.cz>
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Michal Mertl wrote: > And - again - it will probably take a couple of very skilled > programmers' years' time to write good driver from scratch. It took someone far less than that http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/if_nfe.c http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nfe&sektion=4 Nvidia don't want to give out docs. That's their commercial decision - as a result, if you their cards, you may end up with a particularly expensive paperweight the day they decide you need to buy a new card for your new version of freebsd which has different internals; or someone finds bugs in their drivers that they wont fix. it's not like there aren't plenty of other vendors who are more willing to help the developers with documentation in an open manner. Regards Sam -- Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time. Laziness pays off now
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