NVIDIA Publishes Signed Ampere Firmware To Finally Allow Accelerated Open-Source Support

[sinepgib]

But when I read news like this, I wonder why people still work on noveau. It might be a lot more satisfying to work with a hardware maker that does not impede you at every turn. And it has been a few years now that it is obvious Nvidia is the least open source friendly hardware maker.

There may be a lot of incentives, every person is a world. Maybe some just want to understand better nvidia hardware because they want to prove themselves to apply for a job. Maybe some do it out of ideology, wanting all (mainstream) hardware to have free software support and see nvidia being the odd one out. Some may find the challenge fun. Some may have a dual boot for the demanding parts and want their Linux desktop to just-kinda-work without having to install a different driver (for some distros that may be easier than for others). And the list can go on and on.

[birdie]

This is great news! Kudos to NVIDIA though this firmware is long long overdue.

To NVIDIA employees: don't mind the comments here: vapid haters gonna hate. The Linux community for some reasons has the highest concentration of haters among any other community I've dealt with.

[Developer12]

Losers!
They finally realize that Linux is wining, getting more and more attention and users and they suck.
Fuck you Nvidia, we'll continue to buy AMD!

of course they realize linux is winning. All their datacenter customers use their proprietary linux drivers.

[Developer12]

How many cards have they published firmware for, with the express intention of supporting open-source drivers?

[birdie]

Losers!
They finally realize that Linux is wining, getting more and more attention and users and they suck.
Fuck you Nvidia, we'll continue to buy AMD!

Where? On the desktop? Nowhere to be seen just like 20 years ago. 5 000 000 distros and a dozen new each week don't help really help.

Only in wet dreams of Linux fans Linux is "winning".

[birdie]

How many cards have they published firmware for, with the express intention of supporting open-source drivers?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...it/tree/nvidia

Not a lot but then very old GPUs don't even need firmware.

Sadly this release doesn't cover the Pascal and Turing video cards and these two gens remain extremely popular - 13 cards out of the top 20.

[Developer12]

Where? On the desktop? Nowhere to be seen just like 20 years ago. 5 000 000 distros and a dozen new each week don't help really help.

Only in wet dreams of Linux fans Linux is "winning".

Linux is the sole operating system used by all their compute customers.

[RejectModernity]

Losers!
They finally realize that Linux is wining, getting more and more attention and users and they suck.
Fuck you Nvidia, we'll continue to buy AMD!

I guess Intel GPU will be also a solid choice.

[andre30correia]

I guess Intel GPU will be also a solid choice.

better than AMD since amd drivers are really bad

[birdie]

Linux is the sole operating system used by all their compute customers.

Phoronix is a website dedicated to Linux on the desktop. How often do you read news about new Nginx, Apache, Java, Tomcat, RoR/Passenger, MySQL/MariaDB/Percona, Postgres, MongoDB/Redis, etc. here? Michael occasionally posts about new PHP releases and that's it.

Tons of people on Phoronix and other Linux forums love throwing "Linux on servers! Linux on Android!" Who the f cares if we want to use it as a desktop OS?

Corporate customers couldn't care less about the open-sourceness of GPU drivers. Corporate customers don't dabble with new shiny Linux kernel releases. Some Hollywood/3D content studios (corporate customers indeed) do use Linux for applications such as Maya/Blender/etc., but they normally run LTS Linux distros, either RHEL and its derivates or Ubuntu LTS - again, they couldn't care less about Wayland, games, etc. etc. etc.