NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020

[duby229]

Lets not forget Covid19 changed a lot of plans since this announcement was made, it may well have something to do with concerns about the pandemic.

[Michael]

Considering how good Michael is at creating articles from almost nothing, I'm quite surprised that this non-event hasn't made the frontpage yet. Also, had been looking forward to the talk so it is quite frustrating that it just disappeared. Well, it would probably be underwhelming knowing nVidias open-source history.

I would write about it if it was a non-event or something changed, but it's not.... Stay tuned still but sadly not on their original GTC timeline of this month.

[vb_linux]

Considering how good Michael is at creating articles from almost nothing, I'm quite surprised that this non-event hasn't made the frontpage yet. Also, had been looking forward to the talk so it is quite frustrating that it just disappeared. Well, it would probably be underwhelming knowing nVidias open-source history.

Well, Michael should check with his sources. It is not a non-event. People anticipated at least a change in their direction.

[vb_linux]

Can no longer find the event on the GTC webpage, it looks like they've stealth cancelled it.

yes, I couldn't find it too. It is not in their GTC catalog.

[doctoren]

Considering how good Michael is at creating articles from almost nothing, I'm quite surprised that this non-event hasn't made the frontpage yet. Also, had been looking forward to the talk so it is quite frustrating that it just disappeared. Well, it would probably be underwhelming knowing nVidias open-source history.

[Doctor Nick]

Can no longer find the event on the GTC webpage, it looks like they've stealth cancelled it.

[vb_linux]

Michael When is this GTC event? The link is not working anymore.

[Domo-kun]

Seems like nvidia removed "Open Source, Linux Kernel, and NVIDIA." from gtc sessions.

[aht0]

Well as you said, the majority of the people working on GPU drivers are the vendors own devs. Any code, ideas and experiments they get from the outside are at the expense of somebody else, for instance Valve or Croteam.

How much of that could there be? It's very specific knowledge, you pretty much need documentation and internal know how from vendor.

[Djhg2000]

And what precisely would make it less expensive? Care to enlighten? As a rule, crushing majority of the people working on GPU drivers are vendor's own devs..

Well as you said, the majority of the people working on GPU drivers are the vendors own devs. Any code, ideas and experiments they get from the outside are at the expense of somebody else, for instance Valve or Croteam.