Someone should port the NVidia open-source driver to FreeBSD.

[T-Aoki]

Especially because I highly doubt that nouveau driver is worth it.

As I've noted on #17, 3xx series of legacy drivers are EoL'ed upstream (nvidia).

So if any GPUs which don't supported by x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv but nouveau (means, too new for x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv but too old for 470 series of legacy drivers), porting nouveau would be wanted once upstream stops providing tarballs of EoL'ed drivers. (When it happenes or not happens is unknown for us.)

And the 3xx series is the last series that supports i386. So users of i386 kernel (not 32bit compat on 64bit base, but actual 32bit x86 base) would want alternatives (not sure how many users still exists).

Another consideration would be porting NOVA driver, but it is developed using Rust and bottom half of it would be require LinuxKPI to incorporate Rust support (should need 6.15 or newer KBI / KPI).
And more, it seems to mandate GSP, so shouldn't work on old GPUs like mine.

 

[linimon@]

That was an excuse to close it. Asking to port what NetBSD has for EXA, which means it's already been developed. That was wrong to close it, since not everything sent to Bugzilla has a patch coming with it

The FreeBSD Bugzilla has over 10,000 PRs in it. We are trying to improve our throughput of the ones that do have patches. Most of the others are true "bug reports".

Historically, feature requests have simply been buried in the noise. We successfully deal with almost none of them.

As I stated at the time, please raise this issue on the x11@ mailing list, where you are far more likely to catch the attention of someone who understands whether this is feasible.