Very incomplete table I made on driver timelines...
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Originally posted by ArticleGoing forward the 304.xx Linux legacy driver will mainly just be updated for new Linux kernel and X.Org Server compatibility along with any critical bug-fixes needed by major NVIDIA customers.
1) The proprietary driver is no longer installable at all, in newer distributions
2) developers are only working on the drivers for newer hardware even though there might be missing features in the older drivers.
Sure, nvidia might now be doing #2 for the mentioned hardware in the article. However, AMD already does both #1 and #2 for almost all their legacy hardware. So there is really a big difference about how AMD and nVidia go about treating their legacy hardware.
Aside from nVidia screwing Linux users with no support for Optimus and no support for Wayland, it looks like nvidia's Linux hardware support is pretty darn good, supporting the latest kernels and Xorg versions for hardware going back 10+ years with the proprietary driver. Not to mention VDPAU, while AMD really didn't do anything with UVD on Linux.Last edited by Sidicas; 11 September 2012, 05:13 AM.
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Originally posted by whitecat View PostGoogle Docs?
I was thinking of creating timelines for all the graphics hardware showing the release of the hardware, proprietary driver support, open source driver support, end of proprietary support, end of open source support, etc. Just to put things into perspective.
I haven't even gotten to nvidia yet...
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Originally posted by Sidicas View PostPeople keep saying that nvidia's binary blob supports hardware much longer than AMD's binary blob.. I'd like to see it all written down in a table somewhere by GeForce series, AMD series, and the last version of X.org supported.
I think I'll start working on a table this afternoon.. Is there a good Wiki to put such a table?
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Too bad 304.xx makes me system randomly freeze solid.
Still running 295.xx here, my opinion based on personal experience is 295.xx is the series they should've picked for the next legacy branch.
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People keep saying that nvidia's binary blob supports hardware much longer than AMD's binary blob.. I'd like to see it all written down in a table somewhere by GeForce series, AMD series, and the last version of X.org supported.
I think I'll start working on a table this afternoon.. Is there a good Wiki to put such a table?
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Originally posted by roland View PostThat's an interesting response to news about nvidia *dropping* support for a bunch of hardware.
Branching so they can more easily refactor and maintain newer code is not dropping, if they do keep bugfixing and updating for newer X.org releases on the branch.
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Besides the Blob vs. Open Source driver discussion no one can say that Nvidia does nothing to support their customers.
But some things that I think that are needed are KMS support and offical support from Nvidia and may be from some of ther OEMs.
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