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NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers
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Originally posted by Britoid View Posta lot of NVidia's special sauce is already in their userland blob. (It's relatively big...) I really don't think it would make much of a difference except distros would actually work properly on nvidia cards out the box without any downstream distro hacks.
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Before anyone asks in the forums: unfortunately, no, at this stage it doesn't help with Nouveau's biggest challenge of re-clocking / signed firmware since GTX 900 series making it a real obstruction to be able to re-program the hardware to operate at its effective clock speeds rather than the lower boot clock speeds. When asking NVIDIA about it, they are aware of the situation but no solution to announce right now.
I think I have to agree with Linus Torvalds: "Fuck you, Nvidia!"
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It goes back to at least 2012 when they said they would release more docs while now it appears they are living up to that promise for helping Nouveau.
We thought ValveTIME was slow, by NvidiaTIME the day there is a proper performant open source driver we'll all be dead and Phoronix will be 100 years old.
Ludicrous.
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Originally posted by shmerl View Post
Point is, no one will pay them anything, if they can use Nouveau with Mesa. Nvidia profits by controlling the market by the fact that the blob is the only functional kernel driver now. I.e. if they want, they can charge anything to those who need certain features. since they are the gatekeeper. Open driver will remove the middleman. I think that's the primary reason Nvidia were such jerks towards Nouveau.
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