On 03/30/2011 06:25 PM, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
On 30 March 2011 19:12, Ludovic Courtès<l...@gnu.org> wrote:
However, my point is that there is currently no free software tool to
program NVIDIA’s GPUs. My understanding is that the GCC C.F. seeks to
help free software developers, and to promote free software. Inviting
people to use proprietary software wouldn’t correspond to this goal.
Um, how does GCC farm saying "no thanks" to a gift of GPUs help the
production of free software to work with those GPUs?
I think the donation should be accepted, even if it's not used for a
while by lack of free drivers and OpenCL stack.
There is always a delay between hardware release and free drivers
availability.
Getting a brand new card when the OpenCL stack is ready could imply
waiting for free drivers and delay even more GPU availability on the farm.
Greetings,
Nicolas.
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