The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

[oleid]

You mean like "nvidia-470" for Kepler which doesn't support Wayland and reaches EOL next year?

No, they probably mean the out of tree OSS driver NVIDIA dropped some time ago. Everything else wouldn't make sense.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

[Anvil]

an on that Note, Opensource Graphics Drivers are Lame , you always have needed closed source drivers in Linux

[remenic]

Anvil

Michael

can you or you BOT Not SPELL?

its DECADE

can you or your BOT not SPELL?

It's YOUR and IT'S.

[abott]

Nvidia, if you're reading, to not be idiots and to make billions more dollars a year in just a few years. Spend a million dollars or two a year from here out, hire 10+ linux developers to replace him and fix up the rest of the stack, control the upbring, and give yourself the value people want. There's money on the table to provide this shit, and your stuff will not either fall into disrepair now and forever be the stupid shit that sucks to work with that it is currently. Or you can actually make it add value to your shit and stop breaking all the shit in the worlds.

AMD will eventually provide when they stop fumbling the hardware side so badly, their software is better. And that's arguably the most important part that you know.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Nvidia, if you're reading, to not be idiots and to make billions more dollars a year in just a few years. Spend a million dollars or two a year from here out, hire 10+ linux developers to replace him and fix up the rest of the stack, control the upbring, and give yourself the value people want. There's money on the table to provide this shit, and your stuff will not either fall into disrepair now and forever be the stupid shit that sucks to work with that it is currently. Or you can actually make it add value to your shit and stop breaking all the shit in the worlds.

They certainly aren't going to make billions from the sliver of humanity that makes up desktop / gaming Linux users. They already completely dominate the enterprise compute / rendering market on Linux.

AMD will eventually provide when they stop fumbling the hardware side so badly, their software is better. And that's arguably the most important part that you know.

ROCm still being a joke after half a decade proves otherwise. NVIDIA knows the importance of software, that's why CUDA is where it is today (which is everywhere), and why they have a trillion dollar market cap.

[oleid]

ROCm still being a joke after half a decade proves otherwise. NVIDIA knows the importance of software, that's why CUDA is where it is today (which is everywhere), and why they have a trillion dollar market cap.

ROCm works fine for the GPUs that are supported. The biggest trouble is that not that many GPUs are supported.

[Eirikr1848]

You mean like "nvidia-470" for Kepler which doesn't support Wayland and reaches EOL next year?

My niece’s main machine she uses for her dev courses has my Kepler 12GB Quadro K6000 in it.

I guess now, unironically I will have to start saying: “if you want support for your card, you’ll have to build it yourself!”

I was so optimistic with where things were going with Mr. Ben at the helm - but a good leader’s/senior’s legacy often entails passing on knowledge and empowerment of the next to take the reins.

Thus: if homeboy here has decided it’s time to move on and that things are in great hands: then it’s a valid assessment.

Just… damnit Nvidia why did Kepler get grouped in with Fermi for the axe?!

[waxhead]

Michael

can you or you BOT Not SPELL?

its DECADE

Give the man a break, regardless if it is copy/paste journalism or a typo caused by being high on the 87th cup of coffee... Michael actually work, does research and gather all this information for us year after year, day after day. Besides you should clean up your own typos as well.

[fitzie]

nvidia could care less about desktop linux. their proprietary drivers do a good enough job, and their focus is datacenters, only when significant customers start using nouveau will nvidia have to pay it any attention. nouveau is something like a proof of concept to show them a better path forward. it's going to be an uphill battle to prove that. I was a happy radeon user well before AMD got involved with driver development. I'm not sure when nouveau will be able to attract significant users. Hopefully this new gsp stuff works out

[mdedetrich]

What a sophisticated answer. Sadly it doesn't match my wayland experience but I hope the best.

I think he was implying using X11. Anyways NVidia's driver is known not to work well on Wayland and thats because Wayland + other parts of Linux graphics stack doesn't support explicit sync and NVidia's driver only supports explicit sync.

This is slowly being resolved so at some point it won't be an issue.