On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:51:35PM -0600, Scott Long 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! Intel released a documentation set for MIC, which does not even contain any references to the startup sequence and system management. The only thing which is provided is patch for Linux kernel. I will be very delighted and want to appear completely wrong, but my suspect is that FreeBSD will be in the same position with MIC as it is with Intel GPUs. I asked Intel representative about MIC programming documentation some time ago, the answer was 'we do provide extensive documentation for SDK'. After I noted that this is not what is needed to support the hardware on !Linux, I only get a blank eye.
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