A lot of the linux work is pushed not by hobbyists, but by large companies with customers that request support.
Don't mislead yourself by thinking all this Linux work gets done by a large number of unpaid volunteers. Go look at the contribution statistics sometime. If people would like to see CUDA support on FreeBSD then the best thing they can do is to write up the exact state of things, say what works and what doesn't, then make it REALLY easy to Nvidia to throw some resources at it. Having them start at "hm, someone wants BSD support, no customers, erk" is a no brainer - there's no justification, there's noone internally championing BSD, so the chances of it happening are slim. On the other hand, if there's a very specific set of things that need to occur, if you as an organisation will state you'll publicly shift to using Nvidia hardware + CUDA on FreeBSD if/when Nvidia moves, AND you engage an org like the Foundation to work with NVidia to make this happen.. yes, you may find it occurs. Right now if there's a way to run 32 bit CUDA workloads on BSD then please wrap it up in a port and make it an absolute no brainer to do. If someone can identify how to make 64 bit CUDA stuff work - eg, if it only worked on 8.2 but not 9.0, then also please post instructions, wrap it up in a port and make it work on 8.2, help the rest of the community try to identify what broke in 9.0, etc. Thanks, Adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
