NVIDIA 460.67 Linux Driver Brings A Few Fixes, 5.11 Kernel Compatibility

[jabl]

Trying to fix a supply problem with a driver is absolutely insane.

So how are you proposing Nvidia, or for that matter any other fabless company, should fix the supply problem? There's a worldwide chip crunch at the moment, everybody and their dog is throwing money hand over fist at TSMC and Samsung, who are indeed IIRC both expanding, but it's not like you can bring up a $multibillion leading edge fab by snapping your fingers. There's no quick solution here.

[mppix]

Thanks for taking the time to explain that.

The trouble with that view is that GPU designers are always dreaming up new bits of specialized hardware to differentiate their offerings, which complicates matters involving APIs and drivers. And even CPU vendors are in the game of holding back certain capabilities from mainstream CPU.

My wish is that ROCm-support can be as drama-free as graphics acceleration. It used to be that achieving proper OpenGL acceleration, on a particular machine, was a project unto itself. If all the default AMD kernel drivers just worked for graphics and compute out-of-the-box, then they'd have an advantage over Nvidia, because nouveau sometimes causes issues for them (in my experience).

+1 fully agree

[mppix]

So how are you proposing Nvidia, or for that matter any other fabless company, should fix the supply problem? There's a worldwide chip crunch at the moment, everybody and their dog is throwing money hand over fist at TSMC and Samsung, who are indeed IIRC both expanding, but it's not like you can bring up a $multibillion leading edge fab by snapping your fingers. There's no quick solution here.

True. However, miners will still buy all available cards (and increasingly laptops with dGPU..).