NVIDIA To Begin Publishing Open GPU Documentation

[sarmad]

Great news. Let's see if this has anything to do with Valve.

[ninez]

Awesome News

I'm glad to see my chosen GPU Vendor (finally) starting to go in this direction... Hopefully, they'll start pushing out more documentation ~ getting those resources out to developers who want/need it.

However, while this is great news; I really want EGL/Wayland support in "the blob". I'm not interested in using nouveau/Wayland, beyond what testing i have done, here and there, already. (just to try/checkout Wayland a few times).

Maybe with some luck, they'll push a beta release of the binary driver with EGL, in a few releases. ~ I'm not holding my breathe (that it will be that soon), but then again; i also didn't expect to read about them pushing documentation, either

[log0]

Don't get the excitement...

NVIDIA is releasing public documentation on certain aspects of our GPUs,
with the intent to address areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability
of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau

So the intent is to make sure the GPUs run with Nouveau, and that's it.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Disagree. Due to power draw, APU's are never going to advance past entry-level performance. Desktops and high end systems are still going to need dedicated GPU's as a result.

Good luck with that thinking.

[andreano]

the first reason is hidden inside the 3.11 kernel

I'm curious about that now...

Dynamic power management for Radeon?

Last time I tried Nouveau (1 year ago), it halved the battery life of my laptop.
On the plus side, VGA output worked right out of the box (and I could configure desktop sharing through KDE's settings), something that has NEVER worked with the blob ? a life-saver on presentations!

[andreano]

the first reason is hidden inside the 3.11 kernel

Dynamic power management for Radeon?

Last time I tried Nouveau (1 year ago), it halved the battery life of my laptop.
On the plus side, VGA output worked right out of the box (and I could configure desktop sharing through KDE's settings), something that has NEVER worked with the blob ? a life-saver on presentations!

[Rich Oliver]

Leaving aside the details, I think this is quite significant. A lot of big players are very unhappy with Microsoft. Microsoft uses its monopoly power to straight jacket any opposition. but maybe things are starting to break, a lot of Microsoft's so called partners are seeing the chance to break out.

[Calinou]

I used to build my own gaming rigs... in retrospect, this is a waste of time - unless you're in it for the hobbyist/enthusiastic aspect, in the end it is always more expensive than buying an xbox, nintendo, PS, whatever..... plus, there are titles that are game console-specific that are the most interesting games to play (Zelda, for instance)... will likely never see a port to anything other than Nintendo. Your gaming rig will also be obsolete in about 6 months, while consoles last several years before they are updated.

If you want to play games - buy a console. For work, buy a laptop with integrated GPUs (such as Intel's HD/Iris). Let us stop this dogma that one computer has to do it all and do it best - it shouldn't - unless you're willing to fork over a premium, and most people aren't.

Games look way better on a PC and are more open (eg. custom maps/mods) so you can't really say that... but we're getting off-topic here.

[CrvenaZvezda]

Ooooh... Nvidia is feeling the heat? Goodd for Nvidia! But, what I wonder is, what have not been released that developers would like/need to have?

[xnor]

But, what I wonder is, what have not been released that developers would like/need to have?

Pretty much everything.. so far anyway.