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Originally posted by rene View PostWhat has Nvidia to hide?
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Originally posted by L_A_G View Post
Do I actually have to spell this out for you?
Nothing of what you've said in this thread is new or interesting, instead everything you've said has been talked to death years ago. Yes, Nvidia doesn't release specs for their hardware like a lot of people would want them to, causing the development of open source drivers for their hardware to require way more reverse engineering that it should and let's not even go into the firmware signing that completely prevents open source developers from releasing their own drivers on new hardware before Nvidia releases the signatures.
Your dead horse beating really does absolutely nothing!
There are people who run Radeons with opensource driver on else than x86 arches, where nvidia blob or whatever just blobby blobs can't work of courseLast edited by dungeon; 05 September 2018, 07:16 PM.
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Originally posted by reavertm View Post
Perhaps support for AdaptiveSync in Pascal hardware, requiring just some registers to be set by the driver to make cards work with AdaptiveSync-enabled displays, invalidating the need for G-Sync tax and possibly causing outrage when it goes public.
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Originally posted by dungeon View PostThere are people who run Radeons with opensource driver on else than x86 arches, where nvidia blob or whatever just blobby blobs can't work of course
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Originally posted by reavertm View Post
Perhaps support for AdaptiveSync in Pascal hardware, requiring just some registers to be set by the driver to make cards work with AdaptiveSync-enabled displays, invalidating the need for G-Sync tax and possibly causing outrage when it goes public.
And since eDP support for power-save methods on laptop and tablet panels is where Adaptive Sync comes from, it seems pretty obvious to me that Nvidia could easily support it.
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Originally posted by rene View PostJust totally wrong, users choosing Linux for an open system should exactly care about this. If they want closed source they can go to Windows to start with. Open source is about so much more, review ability, security, fixing bugs or implementing new quirks and features yourself, long term maintenance, freedom and such ...
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Originally posted by zoomblab View Post
Everyone has its priorities. Yours is to review the code of the kernel and fix bugs and implement new features your self. Actually have your ever done any of that? Me, I develop software for a living and I use Linux exclusively simply because it is the best unix like system available. Open source for me is like a gift and an extra. If I get my tools to be open source then great but my priorities have higher value for reliability, performance and as a programmer also proper architecture. Nvidia products excel at these values. When I know that Nvidia can reuse 90% of their code across platforms that they have built with their best developers and battle tested I am more confident that this driver works (and it does) and I get the value I paid for.
With AMD and Intel you can reuse 100% of your code across platforms, ..! ;-)
IMHO when people have other priorities they should refrain from promoting and defending a company, when the system developers clearly say for a long time that this is not acceptable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw
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Originally posted by dungeon View Post
I think Rene likes to run various vintage hardware also on various CPU architectures, so for him something like drivers being opensource is essential.
There are people who run Radeons with opensource driver on else than x86 arches, where nvidia blob or whatever just blobby blobs can't work of courseLast edited by rene; 06 September 2018, 04:28 AM.
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Originally posted by rene View PostOf course I have "review the code of the kernel and fix bugs and implement new features your self" since 1998 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1YkPtfC4LI&t=160s), I run a whole Linux distribution: https://t2sde.org
With AMD and Intel you can reuse 100% of your code across platforms, ..! ;-)
IMHO when people have other priorities they should refrain from promoting and defending a company, when the system developers clearly say for a long time that this is not acceptable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYwLast edited by zoomblab; 06 September 2018, 05:34 AM.
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