NVIDIA Preparing To Drop Fermi Support From Their Mainline Drivers

I saw this coming when they skipped supporting vulkan on fermi.

[DanL]

I'm not sure if that counts considering Nvidia contributes very little to Nouveau and Nouveau isn't anywhere near a 1:1 or even a 10:1 replacement for the nvidia blob. Nvidia really needs to do a open source driver like AMD.

No, I was referring to ATI/AMD moving RadeonHD 2000 - 4000 to the open source driver.

Yeah, It is not DAL3 but DC

Huh? That makes no sense in response to my post. I'm talking about RadeonHD 4000 and earlier being dropped from Catalyst/fglrx while there were still RadeonHD 4000-based laptops on the shelves. What does that have to do with DAL3/DC?
As usual, your post is a combination of incomprehensible gibberish and smilies. Please don't respond to me. I wish this forum's block list would work.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I like how PC World can't get off their own asses and purchase a licensed copy of AIDA64.

[dungeon]

It is not just Vega, that is a problem with AMD marketing team as user might be easely confused what he just bought because that could be entirely something else than what marketing says

[Dukenukemx]

Yeah, It is not DAL3 but DC

Problem with AMD is that user have no idea about anything... they don't wrote proper changelogs, never announced timeframe like this when driver would be dropped, etc... user before something happens don't even know if Intel-G is really Vega or that "Vega" might be Polaris instead

Intel's Kaby Lake-G mystery: Why Radeon Vega M may be more Polaris than Vega

Vega at this point is just a buzz word. It sounds cooler than RX 580. Not like Nvidia and Intel are better at naming their products.

[Dukenukemx]

I'm not sure if that counts considering Nvidia contributes very little to Nouveau and Nouveau isn't anywhere near a 1:1 or even a 10:1 replacement for the nvidia blob. Nvidia really needs to do a open source driver like AMD.

I have a few older legacy Nvidia products, and they're all stuck on the Legacy Geforce 304 driver. Some of them work fine with Nouveau, and some of them crash constantly with Nouveau unless I use the Geforce 304 driver. But the 304 driver isn't perfect either as it boots with ACPI errors and etc. At least it works, but with older AMD/ATI hardware you just use the open source driver and you're good to go. In most cases just installing your favorite distro is enough to get it working.

[dungeon]

They didn't drop it. They moved it to the open source driver.

Yeah, It is not DAL3 but DC

Problem with AMD is that user have no idea about anything... they don't wrote proper changelogs, never announced eol timeframe like this when driver would be dropped, etc... user before something happens don't even know if Intel-G is really Vega or that "Vega" might be Polaris instead

Intel's Kaby Lake-G mystery: Why Radeon Vega M may be more Polaris than Vega

[ElectricPrism]

They didn't drop it. They moved it to the open source driver.
Also, there were rebadged Fermi products that launched in 2014, so I'm not sure where Michael got six years. I would guess there were Fermi products sold in to 2015.

I'm not sure if that counts considering Nvidia contributes very little to Nouveau and Nouveau isn't anywhere near a 1:1 or even a 10:1 replacement for the nvidia blob. Nvidia really needs to do a open source driver like AMD.

[DanL]

That's reasonable. Unlike AMD who dropped Terascale support while Terascale GPUs were still actively being manufactured and sold.

They didn't drop it. They moved it to the open source driver.
Also, there were rebadged Fermi products that launched in 2014, so I'm not sure where Michael got six years. I would guess there were Fermi products sold in to 2015.

[DeepDayze]

Yeah it was covered last year - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-Drop-Dropping

Noticed the announcement yesterday that they are finally dropping 32 bit as of now with the exception of critical security updates.