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It has been updated frequently in the past: https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver (scroll down for commit h

by hs86 3y ago

It has been updated frequently in the past: https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver (scroll down for commit history) edit: Has Nvidia been building a FreeBSD driver for the past 20 years, or did they initially port a *nix driver from a different OS to FreeBSD?

izacus 3y ago
nVidia uses a common core for all their drivers so FreeBSD code is essentially wrapping that. This is is where the Linux griping actually come from - they don't rewrite their driver when kernel decides to rethink their graphics stack.
- PlutoIsAPlanet 3y ago
  They're even moving most of the kernel-space driver code to the chip on-board the GPU now (see GSP) and having the kernel driver talk to that.
  - pbir 3y ago
    Pretty soon NUCs and RPis with external GPUs will be common. I look forward to never fitting those fiddly power LED/switch wires ever again. Tons of nostalgia for having been there, done that but that’s all it is; fiddling with nostalgia. It’s a hardware dark pattern.
throw0101a 3y ago
Also Solaris: * https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ > edit: Has Nvidia been building a FreeBSD driver for the past 20 years, or did they initially port a nix driver from a different OS to FreeBSD?* When the game came out, I was playing the Linux-binary of RtCW under FreeBSD using an Nvidia card: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Castle_Wolfenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Castle_Wolfenstein
assimpleaspossi 3y ago
Nvidia has a whole section on installing on FreeBSD [1] as well as supporting drivers and have done so for quite a number of years. However, it's best to just install from package. [1] https://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/1.0-9629/README/index.html https://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/1.0-9629/README/index.ht...

by hs86 3y ago

izacus 3y ago

nVidia uses a common core for all their drivers so FreeBSD code is essentially wrapping that. This is is where the Linux griping actually come from - they don't rewrite their driver when kernel decides to rethink their graphics stack.

PlutoIsAPlanet 3y ago
They're even moving most of the kernel-space driver code to the chip on-board the GPU now (see GSP) and having the kernel driver talk to that.
- pbir 3y ago
  Pretty soon NUCs and RPis with external GPUs will be common. I look forward to never fitting those fiddly power LED/switch wires ever again. Tons of nostalgia for having been there, done that but that’s all it is; fiddling with nostalgia. It’s a hardware dark pattern.

throw0101a 3y ago

Also Solaris: * https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ > edit: Has Nvidia been building a FreeBSD driver for the past 20 years, or did they initially port a nix driver from a different OS to FreeBSD?* When the game came out, I was playing the Linux-binary of RtCW under FreeBSD using an Nvidia card: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Castle_Wolfenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Castle_Wolfenstein

assimpleaspossi 3y ago

Nvidia has a whole section on installing on FreeBSD [1] as well as supporting drivers and have done so for quite a number of years. However, it's best to just install from package. [1] https://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/1.0-9629/README/index.html https://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/1.0-9629/README/index.ht...