Running The NVIDIA Binary Blob On The Tegra K1 ARM SoC

[thegeek6]

Although I wish at some level the driver were OSS, only nVidia provides first-class, top-quality, high-performance OGL 4.4 on Linux. You can't say that of anyone else. And if they want or need to keep it proprietary, that's ok by me.

By comparison, AMD's Catalyst drivers range from mediocre to "I-can't-believe-you-shipped-that-steaming-pile" in spec compliance, performance and reliability. At their best, Catalyst seems to get 75% of their Windows drivers. Their OSS offerings are also spotty and have trouble with performance. Intel gets better marks for their OSS offerings, but they too have issues with spec compliance.

I build and spec Linux boxes, and every discrete graphics board I purchase is nVidia because it just works. Look at System76 (all nVidia) and zaReason (nVidia choices first) as examples of others who have come to the same conclusion. Steam picked nVidia for a reason.

If everyone had their shit together as well as nVidia and their dev kit on Linux, I suspect Google wouldn't have much excuse for disabling video HW acceleration by default on Chrome.

That's ironic, most of the options on the System76 site for Desktop and Laptops default to Intel graphics.

[deppman]

nVidia are the worst, except for all the others.

Bask in my enthusiasm over a devboard that ships with a giant binary proprietary black hole in the home dir you must use to even make X reach a desktop.

Although I wish at some level the driver were OSS, only nVidia provides first-class, top-quality, high-performance OGL 4.4 on Linux. You can't say that of anyone else. And if they want or need to keep it proprietary, that's ok by me.

By comparison, AMD's Catalyst drivers range from mediocre to "I-can't-believe-you-shipped-that-steaming-pile" in spec compliance, performance and reliability. At their best, Catalyst seems to get 75% of their Windows drivers. Their OSS offerings are also spotty and have trouble with performance. Intel gets better marks for their OSS offerings, but they too have issues with spec compliance.

I build and spec Linux boxes, and every discrete graphics board I purchase is nVidia because it just works. Look at System76 (all nVidia) and zaReason (nVidia choices first) as examples of others who have come to the same conclusion. Steam picked nVidia for a reason.

If everyone had their shit together as well as nVidia and their dev kit on Linux, I suspect Google wouldn't have much excuse for disabling video HW acceleration by default on Chrome.

[matto]

Is there anything in the way of open-source graphics drivers for this board?
I thought there were earlier articles about Tegra nouveau drivers

[FourDMusic]

Bask in my enthusiasm over a devboard that ships with a giant binary proprietary black hole in the home dir you must use to even make X reach a desktop.

Yeah! Pros don't need a GUI.

with four ARM Cortex-A15 cores (plus a fifth companion core)

I read this as "plus a fifth companion cube". Playing way too much Portal...

[zanny]

Wow. We need to get this in peoples' hands.

Bask in my enthusiasm over a devboard that ships with a giant binary proprietary black hole in the home dir you must use to even make X reach a desktop.

[scionicspectre]

Wow. We need to get this in peoples' hands.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Running The NVIDIA Binary Blob On The Tegra K1 ARM SoC

For those lucky enough to already have their Jetson TK1 ARM development boards shipped out by NVIDIA, here's a few tips to get better setup within the default Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux environment...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTY3NzM