Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

> Message du 24/11/21 11:08
> De : "Stefan Blachmann"
> Port nouveau to FreeBSD.
>
> Reason:
> There are ongoing changes in the xorg API which break older
> proprietary Nvidia cards' legacy drivers.
> In addition, Nvidia plans to drop/discontinue support for their 390
> driver in 2022.
> Nvidia already stopped support releases for their 340 and older
> drivers so that a lot of Nvidia graphics cards can no longer be used
> on FreeBSD already or will be unusable very soon.
>
> https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142/~/support-timeframes-for-unix-legacy-gpu-releases


That's bad news that I hadn't seen.

However I'm not sure that porting nouveau will help. My experience on 
Fedora is that nouveau simply never works.

A+
Paul