amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7
Alexander Leidinger
Alexander at Leidinger.net
Wed Dec 19 02:02:46 PST 2007
Quoting Marian Hettwer <mh at kernel32.de> (from Tue, 18 Dec 2007
12:10:56 +0100):
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:37:07 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
>> "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman at gmail.com> writes:
>>> I wonder if having a petition signed by a bunch of people would help
>>> this along, because I believe that amd64 3D accel on nvidia, is life
>>> or death to PC-BSD in a year or so.
>>
>> What, exactly, do you think a petition would achieve? Can a petition
>> write code? Can a petition pay somebody to write code? Petitions may
>> work in a democracy, but neither nVidia nor FreeBSD is a democracy.
>>
> While this is true (by the way, what is FreeBSD? nVidia is a
> corporation, therefor not a democracy, but what is FreeBSD?), at
> least a petition could show how many users would like to have amd64
> nvidia support for FreeBSD.
More or less they know already. Just have a look at the nVidia forum
and count the messages there.
Bye,
Alexander.
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