Do you want NVENC?

[shkhln]

State your displeasure with its absence there: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cuda-and-nv-un-register-os-un-lock-user-pages/174678.

(However, please, avoid praising AMD, their GPU computing story is a total mess and "my next GPU will be AMD" statements make us look like a bunch of clowns. You aren't going to scare Nvidia's engineers by threatening them with non-competition, they aren't dumb.)

 

[SirDice]

Done.

 

[Jose]

Same.

 

[tingo]

Also done (heh - I had to register again, I haven't been to that site since the last petition).

 

[Beastie7]

No

 

[shkhln]

(looking at the thread in question) We need use cases, a few concrete complaints are much better than a generic bot-like pileup.

 

[SteamBSD]

I do massage:

CUDA and /(nv_(un|)register|os_(un|)lock)_user_pages/

Hello, I am interested in the nvidia driver and I want to see support for this in FreeBSD

forums.developer.nvidia.com

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[shkhln]

I do massage

We are doomed.

 

[SteamBSD]

Sorry, I change message (add "FreeBSD" word)

We are doomed.

FreeBSD is BEST operating system
and
I think that everything will be fine, you just need to wait

 

[Alexander88207]

you just need to wait

The only question is how long...

 

[SteamBSD]

This is temporary global world problem (economic, coronovirus, confrontation of countries). Just wait...
At least we have Heroes III Hota

All FreeBSD distributions are stored on servers in the cloud. It is reliable. Also, work can be continued along the drm-kmod path (if possible)

 

[shkhln]

I think that everything will be fine, you just need to wait

The only question is how long...

FYI, I actually linked the patch I'm using in the question. You know, just in case.

 

[astyle]

Dunno what's up with that... I'm under impression that as long as you have Nvidia drivers installed, you can use nvenc just fine... multimedia/ffmpeg and multimedia/handbrake can be compiled with support for nvenc just fine. Please reply and correct me if that's not the case. Besides, Nvidia's stuff has traditionally worked very well under FreeBSD, even better than AMD. And this is coming from someone who has an all-AMD FreeBSD 13-RELEASE setup that actually works great.

 

[shkhln]

I'm under impression that as long as you have Nvidia drivers installed, you can use nvenc just fine... multimedia/ffmpeg and multimedia/handbrake can be compiled with support for nvenc just fine. Please reply and correct me if that's not the case.

Do you ever verify your claims? It's not there by default and it won't run if you simply compile it, although NVENC depends on a dedicated hardware codec it still requires CUDA (at least) for initialization. That means you need the aforementioned kernel driver patch in addition to the libnvidia-encode.so and libcuda.so libraries.

 

[shkhln]

As promised: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264027.

 

[astyle]

As promised: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264027.

This did take more than a year... I actually forgot about it until just now. But still, thanks for the f/u !

But yeah, this did show me that AMD GPU's are handled quite differently from NVidia. I personally prefer and use AMD stuff, but it's still interesting to know what's going on in other aisles of the market.