Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD Kernel Feature Requests, interesting info for dfly?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 01:35:08AM +0200, Jose timofonic wrote:
> [...]
>
> > While the following is focused on the NVIDIA FreeBSD
> > graphics drivers, we
> > believe the interfaces discussed below are generally
> > applicable to any
> > modern high performance graphics driver."
>
>
> That's the part where I completely disagree with. The first time
> I read the text I thought "Oh, they could use this feature and this
> feature and this feature. But that wouldn't work on Linux." 
> I guess that pretty much boils down my position. And what Emil said.
>
> Joerg

Personally, I think the 'bigger picture' is not just NVidia 
intransigence, but that the majority 'market' is indifferent to 
brand or even *presence* of video.

Leaving Apple out of the equation, the vast majority of all 
*BSD-flavor boxes are servers or similar network / industrial 
'black boxes', usually housed out of sight in a separate room, 
if not on a separate *continent* from the sysadmin, hence run 
physically 'headless'.

If X-Free/X-Org is not in the default build (and I hope it never 
is), then why should *any* VGA maker worry about the *BSD 
'market' beyond 80-column monochrome text capability?

Bill