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Well yes, but why should a company like nVidia or AMD make a driver for an OS with a user base that's a rounding error? Even if they just release all the infor
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Well yes, but why should a company like nVidia or AMD make a driver for an OS with a user base that's a rounding error?
Even if they just release all the information required to make one, you still need the labor to write the drivers.
I think what parent is really asking is if there is something like rump kernels[0] for GPU.
[0] is this even a thing anymore? rumpkernel.org seems to have become a generic IT news aggregator.
- flatiron 5y agoWouldn’t implementing Linux drm and stealing the drivers be easier?
- anthk 5y agoOpenBSD adapted DRM and KMS.
- blablabla123 5y ago> Well yes, but why should a company like nVidia or AMD make a driver for an OS with a user base that's a rounding error? Because 75% of all public servers are UNIX-like and nowadays by default most commodity computing capacity is on the GPU. Indeed Linux on the Desktop has been a disaster but that's no reason to make OpenCL and similar efforts a disaster too.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoPretty sure by "rounding error" they meant the userbase of Haiku, not Linux.