Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Begins Running Game While Using GSP Firmware

[kn00tcn]

Thanks for confirming that nVidia is paying RedHat to work on the open-source driver!

I'm honestly glad this is getting developed, because it means that when the day comes and nVidia drops support for my 1650 & 3060 Ti many years from now, I still will be able to use these GPUs on Linux.

So many thanks for that!

wtf? redhat pays him not someone paying redhat, redhat may need or want to make a specific certification (like a distro that has no third party software), or what about some cad software paying, or what if a major customer (supercomputer? ai?) requested nv to make the kernel modules and then separately pay redhat for driver improvements, so many possibilities that dont involve nvidia paying redhat...

[JanW]

Sadly, our sentiments dont matter, only money talks, as stated by the FOSS traitor above.

Did you just say that you expect David Airlie to give up his job to respect your sentiments? You're setting yourself up for a lot of disappointment when expecting this of anyone.

[lowflyer]

... and NVIDIA publishing the GSP firmware as part of their open kernel driver effort, hopefully in time things will come together for offering a decent and fully open-source experience on NVIDIA GeForce hardware.

"GSP firmware" and "fully open-source" in the same sentence! Michael , that's why you have so many crashes on your computers they don't cope well with such contradictions.

[bernstein]

As nice as that may sound, i’ve long been running amd gpus because there is foss support.
Same for intel gpus. There is no telling whether this will materialize as a stable, conformant & performant driver this decade. Just dont buy nvidia hardware if you want to run foss drivers.

[Linuxxx]

because other companies have other customers and other requirements on their software. Like this stuff is fun, but we are mostly all getting paid to do it.

Thanks for confirming that nVidia is paying RedHat to work on the open-source driver!

I'm honestly glad this is getting developed, because it means that when the day comes and nVidia drops support for my 1650 & 3060 Ti many years from now, I still will be able to use these GPUs on Linux.

So many thanks for that!

[rabcor]

> hopefully in time things will come together for offering a decent and fully open-source experience on NVIDIA GeForce hardware

suuure. not with this approach.

maybe when they reverse engineer that huge blob.

Yeah nouveau has never really bee ncapable of that. I mean there was a point in time where a couple generations old GPUs ran OK on nouveau, that is the drivers greatest achievement.

Honestly if we're to have any hope at all of decent open source nvidia drivers, it's the recently (last year) open sourced official nvidia drivers. I'm wondering when we'll see these in kernel. It will effectively obsolete nouveau though except for those older cards that nouveau supports.

Unless nouveau and these drivers were somehow merged perhaps.

[airlied]

Or how about using those brilliant but flawed engineers (by insisting in supporting such an antiFOSS company) used all that energy in making HIP/ROCm better?

I dont understand why force things like this when its clear that this POS company will never provide the FOSS compliant drivers requested by their customers.

because other companies have other customers and other requirements on their software. Like this stuff is fun, but we are mostly all getting paid to do it.

[mdedetrich]

I too use nvidia in offload mode, at 1080p (1060 and haswell) it reaches x00 fps without much troubles.

Is there an additional bottelneck here?

Probably rendering in 4k

[yoshi314]

> hopefully in time things will come together for offering a decent and fully open-source experience on NVIDIA GeForce hardware

suuure. not with this approach.

maybe when they reverse engineer that huge blob.

[NeoMorpheus]

Or how about using those brilliant but flawed engineers (by insisting in supporting such an antiFOSS company) used all that energy in making HIP/ROCm better?

I dont understand why force things like this when its clear that this POS company will never provide the FOSS compliant drivers requested by their customers.