Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Refactors Some Display Code For Linux 5.20

[PublicNuisance]

Nouveau is the Internet Explorer of GPU drivers. It's the best driver to download the official NV driver with.

Maybe if you don't care about privacy or security very much. If you do then you're probably on the Libre kernel which means it's Nouveau or Intel for GPU options right now.

[Ladis]

You have been reported, troll. You don't only use homophobe 4chan terminology, you have no clue. I'm disgusted by your language and I'm not going to shut up about it nor STFU

Nvidia did a half baked code drop of a semi open source driver, it's not so open.

Do it ourselves? Does AMD or Intel does that or put resources into driver development along with thousands of hardware companies?

Yes, AMD does that. ROCm is currently the only working solution for computation on their GPUs (and officially supported only on few).

[timofonic]

Yes, AMD does that. ROCm is currently the only working solution for computation on their GPUs (and officially supported only on few).

That's a flaw, I agree and I'm very disgusted at it. But Nvidia is awful and pure vendor lock-in.

[karolherbst]

We actually have a pile of patches in the queue, but there were random issues, so we limited that to the safe ones. We wanted to get GL support going for ampere in 5.20, but... guess that has to wait until 5.21

[anarki2]

If it does not crash of course.

Ah yes, never forget to add nomodeset to your boot options first. We had to for YEARS, because otherwise the mobile 1050 Ti's just wouldn't boot on Ubuntu Bionic.

[QwertyChouskie]

We actually have a pile of patches in the queue, but there were random issues, so we limited that to the safe ones. We wanted to get GL support going for ampere in 5.20, but... guess that has to wait until 5.21

Ohh, nice! By the way, it seems NVK development has stagnated for a few weeks (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/nouve...its/nouveau/vk). Are things expected to pick up again once Ampere GL support gets merged?

[karolherbst]

Ohh, nice! By the way, it seems NVK development has stagnated for a few weeks (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/nouve...its/nouveau/vk). Are things expected to pick up again once Ampere GL support gets merged?

ohh, that's unrelated. But we are waiting on stuff to happen before we continue.

[Developer12]

I have no idea why people expect any improvement for nvidia cards under nouveau, particularly non-current ones. All non-current cards probably have the best level of support they will ever have. Period.

If they're old enough to not require signed firmware, congratulations! With the exception of bugs that might have crept in over the years, these cards are pretty much optimally supported! They're old and kinda slow though, sorry.

If they're new enough to require signed firmware but aren't from the turing generation, sucks to be you. Your card will never support graphics acceleration at the proper clock speed because nvidia will never release signed firmware for it that allows reclocking.

If your card is turing, then at some point in the next few years there will presumably be an open nvidia kernel driver that's production ready and eventually an open userspace driver, whether based on nouveau or written from scratch. You're never going to see them open-source the firmware that runs on the card's processing unit and does most of the work though. The whole reason nvidia are finally doing anything open-source is because they can hide whatever they want in that on-card firmware.

[karolherbst]

I have no idea why people expect any improvement for nvidia cards under nouveau, particularly non-current ones. All non-current cards probably have the best level of support they will ever have. Period.

If they're old enough to not require signed firmware, congratulations! With the exception of bugs that might have crept in over the years, these cards are pretty much optimally supported! They're old and kinda slow though, sorry.

If they're new enough to require signed firmware but aren't from the turing generation, sucks to be you. Your card will never support graphics acceleration at the proper clock speed because nvidia will never release signed firmware for it that allows reclocking.

If your card is turing, then at some point in the next few years there will presumably be an open nvidia kernel driver that's production ready and eventually an open userspace driver, whether based on nouveau or written from scratch. You're never going to see them open-source the firmware that runs on the card's processing unit and does most of the work though. The whole reason nvidia are finally doing anything open-source is because they can hide whatever they want in that on-card firmware.

nvidia actually released that signed firmware as part of their open driver and we are planning on using that.

[karolherbst]

we already have the code for it, but it's still WIP at this stage