Subject: Re: Petition for NetBSD Nvidia driver
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Noud deBrouwer <noud4@home.nl>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/01/2006 22:12:45
Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:09:38AM +0800, Karim Forsthofer wrote:
> 
>>Please support it. 
>>Your vote count. 
>>http://www.nvidia-petition.tk/
> 
> 
> Why should NVIDIA care about a petition?  They're not against the idea
> of having a NetBSD driver.  The thing is, it's hard work, for very
> little purpose.
> 
> Besides, they _do_ care.  When I was working on that project, NVIDIA
> people were kind enough to at least try to answer the questions I asked
> them.
> 
> Porting the FreeBSD driver is not that big a task;  it took me two
> months at the time to get it into a somewhat working state, and I had no
> previous kernel programming experience.
> 
> If someone can make a really usable port of the FreeBSD driver, NVIDIA
> might very well consider doing the necessary steps to have NetBSD
> binaries, without the need for any petition.
> 
> What's needed is someone to do the porting work;  in the 4 years my
> project has been dead, I have had probably no more than 5 people asking
> me about it, and none of them actually pursued the idea.
> 
> IMO, you'd better organise a bounty for that project, rather than
aja..i agree ;) ..
> whining to NVIDIA.
> 

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