Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Marian Hettwer wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:37:07 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@xxxxxx>
wrote:
"Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@xxxxxxxxx> 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. These numbers could (!) be interesting
for nvidia. That's what you usually call a "market need" in captilsm
speak. Although I do have my doubts wether we could show nvidia that
our need as that big that nvidia would think "hej, wow, what a huge
market, let's get em" ;-) I believe a better way would be just asking
nvidia "Hej, how much money do you need to deliver and probably
maintain a amd64 version of your driver for FreeBSD". Instead of
signing a petition, users could donate...

FreeBSD is a code-ocracy.

You supply the code you get the votes.
(ish)

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