GPUs on FBSD?

Chris Rees utisoft at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 20 16:14:24 UTC 2009


2009/11/20 Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com>:
>
> Chris Rees writes:
>>  > Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch?
>>  > Any advice?
>>
>>  Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no
>>  amd64 driver.
>
>        There was a posting within the last 24 hours on one of the
> FreeBSD mailing lists that pointed to a post indicating nVidia is
> working on native {i386, amd64} drivers.  The post was dated
> November 5th; it provided no expected release date beyond "when it's
> done".  My personal _estimation_ would be "when 8.0 ships, or soon
> after".
>
>
>                                Robert Huff

Now that could be very interesting....

Thanks for your alertness! I couldn't find the post you mentioned,
though there is
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2078598&postcount=415

Chris


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