If the policy "no opensource userland = no mainlining for kernel driver" is still valid, that kernel driver won't ever be merged into mainline.
And the userland part won't be opensourced, as stated by NVIDIA FAQs, I guess this is just some help for nouveau guys.
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AMD Graphics Driver Surpassing 4 Million Lines Of Code In Linux 5.19, NVIDIA Opens Up At 1 Million
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Sounds like they moved more of the driver blob into the hardware... so the driver probably still isn't even close to being as ideal as AMD's which mostly is either documented all the way down to the GPU ISA or is itself documentation of that as well as the surrounding control hardware. It seems Nvidia's probably only documents the CU ISA + moves all the control stuff into a blob that the driver talks to.
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Originally posted by ResponseWriter View PostWas any approximate kernel version given for when this code is expected to be merged? I'm guessing 5.20 is optimistic so will probably miss out on the next GPU launches. Maybe in time for 5000 series?
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Originally posted by ResponseWriter View PostWas any approximate kernel version given for when this code is expected to be merged? I'm guessing 5.20 is optimistic so will probably miss out on the next GPU launches. Maybe in time for 5000 series?
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Originally posted by er888kh View Post
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
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It would be more informative to present the number of C lines not counting the headers.
Not sure I am reading it correctly, but it is 476k for AMD and 742k for NVidia?
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Originally posted by ResponseWriter View PostWas any approximate kernel version given for when this code is expected to be merged? I'm guessing 5.20 is optimistic so will probably miss out on the next GPU launches. Maybe in time for 5000 series?
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Can't wait to see what happens on the user-space side; Mesa, Wayland compositors, etc...if the NVIDIA ecosystem will become just as simple and nice as an AMD or Intel GPU system.
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Was any approximate kernel version given for when this code is expected to be merged? I'm guessing 5.20 is optimistic so will probably miss out on the next GPU launches. Maybe in time for 5000 series?
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