NVIDIA Contributes Some New Tegra/Nouveau Patches

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Contributes Some New Tegra/Nouveau Patches

It's not any re-clocking code or magical improvements for Nouveau's Pascal support, but on the Tegra side a NVIDIA developer has volleyed some new open-source patches...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-Tegra-Mmap-Fence-FDs

[Anvil]

dunno why Nvidia bother to contribute to the Noveau Project when its a Dead driver anyway, an Nvidia dont want competition .

[theriddick]

It serves as a decent backup driver until you install their closed one.

[Anvil]

It serves as a decent backup driver until you install their closed one.

true that.

[starshipeleven]

dunno why Nvidia bother to contribute to the Noveau Project when its a Dead driver anyway, an Nvidia dont want competition .

The contribution here is for Tegra which is embedded hardware, in embedded there is a bit more interest in opensource (I mean $$$) than on desktop. Not much, just a bit.

[dragon321]

dunno why Nvidia bother to contribute to the Noveau Project when its a Dead driver anyway, an Nvidia dont want competition .

Who told You nouveau is dead?

[Anvil]

Who told You nouveau is dead?

no one did but IMO it is anyway as its useless an ya wonder why many still use the closed Nvidia Driver .

[AJenbo]

On my machine it crashes with the nvidia driver and works just fine (don't really need to game on a 2010 mac) with nouveau.

[starshipeleven]

Who told You nouveau is dead?

NVIDIA when they keep not releasing power management firmware for newer GPUs.

[yoshi314]

dunno why Nvidia bother to contribute to the Noveau Project when its a Dead driver anyway, an Nvidia dont want competition .

i think that is because there are various legacy linux setups that might be too much of a hassle to provide support for.

not everybody needs fast 3d graphics, but they surely could use some decent 2d acceleration and good multi-monitor support. that's one of the reasons i'm not really considering an nvidia card to drive my 4k display at work, until nouveau gets performant enough.