NVIDIA Lands X.Org Server Support For PRIME Render Offload On FreeBSD

[Hibbelharry]

Weird.

At first you say...

Don't settle for mediocracy

but then you say...

Hah, hardly. I still think that X11 is going to win. FreeBSD doesn't need to rush getting this "mere distraction" Wayland stuff working.
Or at the very least, the Wayland ecosystem will actually have some decent compositors by the time it is working.

So you say you want to stay on X11 and mediocracy. That makes no sense at all.

[brad0]

Nvidia 🤢 Xorg 🤢

You forgot Linux. 🤢 🤢

[Volta]

You forgot Linux. 🤢 🤢

He didn't. It's just who didn't get it.

[kpedersen]

So you say you want to stay on X11 and mediocracy. That makes no sense at all.

It makes total sense once you realize that Wayland can't even run the basics like Wine natively yet.

One day you might even be able to have "screen share" support in more than a *fraction* of compositors. XD

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1430775

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6712111

Face it. You are basically back in the DOS era.

[aht0]

But doesn't Nvidia hate open source?

Nvidia binary driver's core is universal for all OS'es they choose to support. "glue" between core and particular OS is what they made tiny change in it.

[sabian2008]

Nvidia binary driver's core is universal for all OS'es they choose to support. "glue" between core and particular OS is what they made tiny change in it.

That is well known. But for people that live in black and white, Nvidia spent resources (a tint bit, but more than zero) to extend support for a system with a negligible userbase.

[Weasel]

Nvidia 🤢 Xorg 🤢

Wayland 🤢 curfew 🤢

[aht0]

That is well known. But for people that live in black and white, Nvidia spent resources (a tint bit, but more than zero) to extend support for a system with a negligible userbase.

Depends, 10's of millions FreeBSD systems across world.

[grahamperrin]

… recently added a port of the "nvidia-drm" kernel module …

For clarity: it's not yet in the FreeBSD ports tree.

Context: https://github.com/amshafer/nvidia-driver#readme

Michael, if not too late, you might like to update the article. Thanks.