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Originally posted by Morpheus View PostI see the "link-time-optimization" stuff, but what about performance optimization if all the drivers get glued together ? It's already difficult to have a decent perf on even old cards, because driver optimization is hard to get even with 3 different drivers, so I don't like the idea of merging all together, with the fear of getting the worst performance possible regardless the card.
Right now I feel bad for Nouveau drivers. They don't get the same attention that AMD drivers get. With Nvidia hardware you will most likely use their drivers. AMD cards are so good the open source drivers are beating Catalyst with PTE patch. I got an Nvidia 9600M GT, and I use Nvidia drivers, which isn't helping Nouveau. It won't be long before Nvidia gives the finger to NV50 hardware.
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Originally posted by Dukenukemx View PostDepends on what you mean by "old cards"? Right now anything older then Radeon HD 5000 series is considered old, but shares a lot of code with HD 2000 to 4000 series. Cards from HD 2000 to GCN do share a lot of driver code, with minor differences here and there. By combining the driver can also benefit older cards, since some changes can be inherited.
Right now I feel bad for Nouveau drivers. They don't get the same attention that AMD drivers get. With Nvidia hardware you will most likely use their drivers. AMD cards are so good the open source drivers are beating Catalyst with PTE patch. I got an Nvidia 9600M GT, and I use Nvidia drivers, which isn't helping Nouveau. It won't be long before Nvidia gives the finger to NV50 hardware.
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Originally posted by Dukenukemx View PostAMD cards are so good the open source drivers are beating Catalyst with PTE patch.Last edited by dungeon; 15 May 2014, 10:17 AM.
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Originally posted by mark_ View PostI'm asking myself why the distributions install every driver in the first place. I don't need Nvidia and intel (or matrox or S3) drivers if I am using an ATI card but nonetheless they are installed. And if I try to remove them, the packaging software probably wants to remove all desktop and X11 packets because they "depend" on drivers I never use.
But instead of improving their shitty packagers and introducing a hardware detection at installation time - sure, let the upstreamers change everything to save some space (the Windows drivers also include everything for all cards and even a config interface with dependant libraries, who cares about 200MB drivers there?).
If they are so anal about package size, they probably want to shrink their kernel images from 30MB to 2MB first, then we'll talk again.
If you distro has a sensible packaging system (*cough* debian and derivatives) then it knows the difference between 'depends', 'recommends' and 'suggests'.
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