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Bickering Continues About NVIDIA Using DMA-BUF
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Hmm, speaking of licensing, I wonder... Would it theoretically be possible to have a "half-closed" driver? Say, open-source bits that are yours, and leave a part of the code that isn't yours as closed-source. For things like Catalyst it's not that good idea since there is no real distinction between the two, I assume, but if, say, a new company came into play, had drivers on Windows and wanted to port them to Linux, and did that keeping this strategy in mind, the result might be interesting. Maybe it could even be considered to be generally open-source and could use all the kernel functionality, and the closed part of it could be an "optional add-on".
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Originally posted by asdxAre they paying engineers to work in open source graphics drivers and Mesa full-time? I doubt it.
We've had full time developers working in the open source graphics drivers and mesa since the end of 2007. Two full time devs from 2008 through 2011, two more added last year, and one more this year for a total of 5 full time.Test signature
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Originally posted by XorEaxEax View PostIf the GPU market on Linux was that of the end user desktop then you would never have had any driver support from NVidia, if you want to thank anyone for being able to run NVidia proprietary drivers on your Linux desktop then it should be directed at those companies in the aforementioned HPC/3D/SFX field who said that 'we are moving our production pipelines/computing clusters to Linux, if you want to sell us GPU's then supply Linux drivers', NVidia did not start supporting Linux because they think Linux is great, they started supporting Linux because companies they want to sell GPU's to think Linux is great.
I always wondered what makes NVidia keep their Linux drivers full-featured and contributed that to post-SGI inertia (with NVidia being SGI continuator in some markets). If there are indeed big customers voting for desktop Linux with their dollars, then I'm looking more optimistically at this fight over DMA-BUF
Personally, I work in gamedev and Linux is an alien in this industry. I've never seen Linux desktop being used *at work*, and artists are generally hostile (or at best, indifferent) towards the OS.
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go alan cox hmm I even saw him one time on the linux day so what nvidia-linux-deskop users dont get, if you completly give up freedom to help companies to release their blobs and maybe even get linux more users or so. you loose what made linux important.
So if you give up completly the freedom you lost whats most important about linux. Yes Linus makes compromises. I dont agree totaly to that.
I am more a freesoftware than opensource guy. But I also make some compromises, I use a mobile not like rms ^^. But at least I try to as far as reasonable without loosing to much comfort or funktionality.
So I can understand a bit, why in earlier days where linux was a smaller player, this compromises about enforcing the gpl or not were made. To allow blobs that are dependend to the linux kernel.
But today its different, Nvidia really gets big problems if they cant use their blob anymore. and amd and intel have opensource drivers. So they dont get that much problems.
At least hold this line, I would go further and just dont work with nvidia anymore till they send opensource patches or something like that.
Right now Amd maybe gets 0 cent of releasing opnesource linux drivers. Because blobs that violates the gpl are allowed.
If most linuxusers which dont want intel gpus for some reason, would by amd grafics cards because they have the better (free) drivers, maybe amd would hire more developers for the free driver or at least reassign some of the fglrx guys.
That really would help linux and would increase the pressure against nvidia.
Today there is no advantage for grafics companies to use free drivers it seems. Or why do we see mostly only closed drivers.
The next pesty drivers will be all the arm socks that are all closed (at least the 3d part). So now the linux devs could stop this insanity and user-controllablity.
They even make their hands dirty when they allow this companies to enslave more users.Last edited by blackiwid; 19 October 2012, 03:42 PM.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostYou doubt wrong
We've had full time developers working in the open source graphics drivers and mesa since the end of 2007. Two full time devs from 2008 through 2011, two more added last year, and one more this year for a total of 5 full time.
So its your responsibility the crappy open drivers and the bad optimizers? Or your bosses decide this on purpose? And anyway the most of the job is there (MESA, Intel's), there is not excuse. And why is really important: I can't play for example TERA_online with Catalyst and an 1.2Tflops HD4800 via WINE (multiple D3D errors). Now this card will never do it because you discontinue support, so?
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Originally posted by ворот93 View PostIf NVIDIA turns their back on Linux kernel, then it is game over for desktop Linux. GAME. OVER. That's why shutting up zealots like Cox or Torvalds is a priority.
People like you these hate speech people really need a bulled.
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