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Originally posted by sebastianlacuesta View PostNvidia wants to help Nouveau...
NVidia needs to get support code into the open source drivers in order for their EGLstreams successor to fly, and so far there is no reason for the community to write the code themselves.
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Originally posted by Veto View PostInteresting. What is the source and date of that slide?Michael Larabel
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i have a theory that nvidia finally realized that doing things their own way is going to be maintenance nightmare for them pretty soon, since graphics stack in linux is increasing in complexity.
amd has drivers that leverage llvm or other opensource code for various things, although i am not sure how exactly their amdgpu-pro variant exactly works. majority of the code is upstreamed into respective projects, with active maintainers (some of them employed by amd) and that also allows other platforms and operating systems (aros on x86/ppc, android on x86, non-x86 plaforms where one can use amd cards, hobbyist operating systems like kolibri, etc) to use their hardware.
i think nvidia will have to do what amd did - opensource kernel and xorg part. maybe basic 3d driver and optional proprietary 3d driver with max performance. i don't believe they will ever go fully opening their code, they might simply not be able to do so legally. i am pretty certain the dev team is starting to feel the maintenance burden.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostBut now, AMD+Intel are almost fully caught-up with Nvidia (in terms of performance and features), and Wayland is starting to be more widely adopted. Ignoring hardware limitations, we're very close to a point where AMD will be a resounding better option for Linux (regardless of your principles) and where Nvidia will be holding back development to the point where they're resented rather than "begrudgingly accepted".
As for AMD, they can't match the top of Nvidia's line from over a year ago with their latest "best release", so I don't think Nvidia is too worried - unlike Intel who does have competition from Zen.
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Typo:
Originally posted by phoronixdeveloping a new library that sites besides/on-top-of GBM for in turn doing the low-level graphics buffer allocations.
Also, is it going to work on BSDs/macOS/Solaris/other Unixes? (or does NVIDIA merely hate saying "Linux"?)
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