On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:43:59PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > On 17 Sep 2015, at 11:31, Lundberg, Johannes <johannes_at_brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote: > > > > Anyway, I wish the foundation would support the graphics team by sponsoring this development... > > The Foundation did fund a lot of this work, and likely will again. > The problem is not willingness of the Foundation to fund it, nor > availability of funds. As with WiFi, it's availability of people > who have both the competence and interest to do the work and the > availability to work as consultants for the Foundation. > > Long term, the real solution is to convince GPU vendors to put as > much effort into funding FreeBSD driver development as they do into > funding Linux and Windows driver development. The Foundation has > been reaching out in this direction, but it's far more compelling if > people can document cases where lack of FreeBSD support has cost a > vendor sales. If you've bought a system with an nVidia or AMD GPU > (or, ideally, if your company has bought a few thousand) because of > lack of FreeBSD support from Intel, then let Intel know. Impotant: if you already buy Intel system -- Intel will be ignored you, only future sales important.Received on Thu Sep 17 2015 - 10:48:27 UTC
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