Intel XEON Phi: Linux only?

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 05:32:58 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> I bet the answer is something like "Get FreeBSD up on it or work with
>> someone who can help you do that."
>>
>> It's a catch-22 just like GPU - unless ${COMPANY} has customers using
>> it, they're not likely to dedicate resources, and no users will use it
>> if it doesn't work, so .. who will break the cycle. :)
>
> If I may be blunt here, there's no point in idle speculation when there are several FreeBSD committers who work for Intel and write Intel drivers for FreeBSD.  Let's ask them!

+1!
-Garrett


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