Provided patch to fix building x11/nvidia-driver* on #FreeBSD src main at commit 4dd828c80828637452a8a4e07a64e294c82e5d8b and later on Bug 288236.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288236
Also opened review for the patch as D51340, which is already accepted by 2 reviewers.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51340
As discussed with Konstantin on Bug 288236, turned out that formerly constant macros are now really "variables", the fix is applied conditionally.
As the above-mentioned commit does NOT have corresponding version bump, there are broken time window on main branch only before above-mentioned commit around 10 days.

#FreeBSD #nvidia

Nvidia's planned resumption of sales of its H20 AI chips to China is part of U.S. negotiations on rare earths, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/16/tech/nvidia-ai-china-rare-earths-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #china #rareearths #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #chipmakers

For anyone on #FreeBSD main (aka Current) branch of src and x11/nvidia-driver* start failing to build, please track Bug 288236.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288236

Considering possibility that more kmod ports are affected, I'm now proposing fix on src side, but if it's rejected, I have another plan.

#FreeBSD #nvidia

Nvidia plans to resume sales of its H20 AI chip to China after securing Washington’s assurances that such shipments would get approved, a dramatic reversal from the Trump administration’s earlier stance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/15/tech/nvidia-h20-ai-chip-china-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #jensenhuang #nvidia #china #semiconductors #chipmakers #tech #us #huawei #ai

Malaysia will now require permits for exports of high-performance U.S. artificial intelligence chips, suggesting the government is aiming to clamp down on any possible diversion of it to places like China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/14/tech/malaysia-ai-chip-us-china-smuggling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #malaysia #semiconductors #us #china #ai #nvidia #jensenhuang

Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said the U.S. government doesn’t need to be concerned that the Chinese military will use his company’s products to improve their capabilities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/14/tech/nvidia-huang-china-ai-chips/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #jensenhuang #china #us #ai #semiconductors

💰 Sell the shovel

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j13m74lklo

#nvidia #ai #bubble

Nvidia has become the first company to reach $4 trillion in market value , a new milestone in Wall Street's bet that artificial intelligence will transform the economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/10/tech/ai-nvidia-first-4-trillion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #semiconductors #ai #tech

Four trillion US dollars: Nvidia beats Microsoft and Apple to the punch

Nvidia makes history on July 9, 2025. For the first time, a company is worth more than four trillion US dollars on the stock exchange.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Four-trillion-US-dollars-Nvidia-beats-Microsoft-and-Apple-to-the-punch-10482531.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Börse#KünstlicheIntelligenz#Nvidia#Wirtschaft #news

The success of China’s DeepSeek-R1 has shocked the U.S. and reinforced the idea that human talent is the true driver of AI competitiveness. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/03/japan/sputnik-moment-in-global-ai-race/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #deepseek #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #llm #china #nvidia

AI firm DeepSeek is aiding China's military and intelligence operations, a senior U.S. official said, adding that the startup sought to access high-end chips that cannot be shipped to China under U.S. rules. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/24/tech/deepseek-china-military-export-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #deepseek #china #nvidia #semiconductors

💻 FreeBSD CUDA drm-61-kmod 💻

"Just going to test the current pkg driver, this will only take a second...", the old refrain goes. Surely, it will not punt away an hour or so of messing about in loader.conf on this EPYC system...

- Here are some notes to back-track a botched/crashing driver kernel panic situation.
- Standard stuff, nothing new over the years here with loader prompt.
- A few directives are specific to this system, though may provide a useful general reference.
- The server has an integrated GPU in addition to nvidia pcie, so a module blacklist for the "amdgpu" driver is necessary (EPYC 4564P).

Step 1: during boot-up, "exit to loader prompt"
Step 2: set/unset the values as needed at the loader prompt

unset nvidia_load
unset nvidia_modeset_load
unset hw.nvidiadrm.modeset
set module_blacklist=amdgpu,nvidia,nvidia_modeset
set machdep.hyperthreading_intr_allowed=0
set verbose_loading=YES
set boot_verbose=YES
set acpi_dsdt_load=YES
set audit_event_load=YES
kern.consmsgbuf_size=1048576
set loader_menu_title=waffenschwester
boot

Step 3: login to standard tty shell
Step 4: edit /boot/loader.conf (and maybe .local)
Step 5: edit /etc/rc.conf (and maybe .local)
Step 6: debug the vast output from kern.consmsgbuf logs

#freebsd #nvidia #cuda #gpu #engineering #terminal #saturday