Red Hat Developer Manages Full Clock-Gating For Kepler With Nouveau

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Red Hat Developer Manages Full Clock-Gating For Kepler With Nouveau

In improving the power-savings of NVIDIA GeForce 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs running on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver, Red Hat developer Lyude Paul has published a set of patches allowing for full clock-gating with these older graphics cards...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-Kepler-Clock-Gating-RFC

[AdamOne]

think i have to change distro so I can use kepler reclocking patch with kernel 4.8 headers, rolling edge is not helping me

my lts kernel downgrades to 4.9.41 however

[bachchain]

It's sad that you have to reverse engineer this sort of thing

[DanL]

It's sad that you have to reverse engineer this sort of thing

You don't have to. You can use Nvidia's driver. But then, you already knew that...

[rene]

You don't have to. You can use Nvidia's driver. But then, you already knew that...

No can't, do not trust their security, in 2018 binary-only blob does not cut it anymore. Also can't use it on my PowerPC64 G5, ... or DragonflyBSD, ...

[xxmitsu]

Life is unfair, but we already knew that. Company "A" with tight budget, invests high amount of resources to be opensource friendly and the other greedy company "B", open-source hostile, gets those features for free.

[rene]

Life is unfair, but we already knew that. Company "A" with tight budget, invests high amount of resources to be opensource friendly and the other greedy company "B", open-source hostile, gets those features for free.

well, as a result of not state of the art open source support I do not recommend company B at all, over a decade already. More people should spread the word to support those companies that actually are open source friendly.

[karolherbst]

It's sad that you have to reverse engineer this sort of thing

but more fun!

[tessio]

No can't, do not trust their security, in 2018 binary-only blob does not cut it anymore. Also can't use it on my PowerPC64 G5, ... or DragonflyBSD, ...

So buy AMD or Intel..

[schmidtbag]

No can't, do not trust their security, in 2018 binary-only blob does not cut it anymore. Also can't use it on my PowerPC64 G5, ... or DragonflyBSD, ...

I really don't how understand security is anything to be concerned about, especially considering the amount of effort it takes to reverse-engineer Nvidia's work.
Also, Nvidia never had support for PPC (except maybe older models for Mac), and Kepler GPUs probably demand more PCIe bandwidth than what a G5 has to offer. So even if Nvidia had any obligation to get newer GPUs to work on PPC, they wouldn't be worth using anyway.
As for DragonlyBSD (or other BSDs), I thought Nvidia supplied working closed-source drivers for the BSDs?

Like mentioned earlier, just go for Intel or AMD. As of today, the only reason to pick Nvidia over AMD for Linux is for:
* The software support from the closed-source drivers (which you already established you can't use)
* The extra features supplied by the closed-source drivers
* The performance you get from a 1080Ti or Titan Xp (which neither your G5 nor Nouveau are going to take advantage of)