NVIDIA Contributes Some New Tegra/Nouveau Patches

[d4ddi0]

Most of you know this, but Tegra is the ONLY driver for arm.
Who knows what would be necessary to make NVIDIA's closed x86 driver work on other architectures.

[lucrus]

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

I use it, no 3D needs on my old laptop, and it saves me from installing and ugrading the nvidia blob. No wonder why many still use the closed one. I wonder why many Linux enthusiasts still BUY nvidia hardware. This laptop I'm using is the last one I will ever own with a nvidia GPU (or any other nvidia component, if at all possible).

[starshipeleven]

Most of you know this, but Tegra is the ONLY driver for arm.
Who knows what would be necessary to make NVIDIA's closed x86 driver work on other architectures.

Tegra is not a driver. Tegra is the name of NVIDIA's own ARM SoC designs, like Snapdragon is Qualcomm's.
The GPU component in the Tegra has proprietary drivers too, and most use that.

NVIDIA x86 driver won't work on Tegra because that is a different GPU hardware, even if we ignore that x86 drivers can't run in ARM processors.

[WolfpackN64]

On my secondary machines that use NVIDIA GPU's, I use Nouveau. The proprietary blob is on many occasions a PITA to install and MATE with the software renderer works fine on older cards with Nouveau anyway.

[Apopas]

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

Old cards do not work with recent kernels and xorg. Without nouveau you have to run an old distro or through your old laptop out of the window.

[tuke81]

Most of you know this, but Tegra is the ONLY driver for arm.
Who knows what would be necessary to make NVIDIA's closed x86 driver work on other architectures.

drm/tegra is the free arm driver for pre desktop graphics on SOC(up until K1). From K1 graphics drivers are now included in drm/nouveau, as is their desktop counterparts. And yes nvidia has closed proprietary graphics drivers for arm with common code stack with x86-64 counter part(even with windows driver code stack).

[eydee]

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

It's far from dead, it's just not for your average desktop gaming PC.

[schmidtbag]

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

Nouveau definitely is not dead. It's a good choice for those who have older hardware (like GTX 700 series and older). The progress on it is impressive when you consider how few people are working on it, where almost everyone is a volunteer.