On 31 March 2011 11:42, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Nikodemus Siivola <nikode...@random-state.net> writes: > >> 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? > > You’re right, but my impression is that people will work on projects > that build upon NVIDIA’s CUDA/OpenCL implementation rather than on a > free software replacement such as Clover.
It seems to me that the issue of installing or not binary drivers is orthogonal to the issue of accepting or not the GPUs. I am pretty sure the Nouveau devs will be happy to have access to more GPUs: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/HardwareDonations https://github.com/pathscale/pscnv/wiki/TestingTimings Cheers, Manuel. _______________________________________________ Gcc-cfarm-users mailing list Gcc-cfarm-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gcc-cfarm-users
