Nouveau Re-Clocking Is Way Faster, Shows Much Progress For Open-Source NVIDIA

[Lennie]

Please, Nvidia has absolutely no interest in open source. The Nouveau team has to reverse engineer everything from a black box. AMD and Intel have real open source video driver programs.

That isn't completely true.

They do help the Linux kernel developers for the mobile Nvidia chip (which is where Nvidia doesn't have a large market share).

[Kivada]

Both vendors' open source drivers are progressing nicely. I can't wait for the day when we can ignore the proprietary ones for most scenarios, or even all scenarios!

Please, Nvidia has absolutely no interest in open source. The Nouveau team has to reverse engineer everything from a black box. AMD and Intel have real open source video driver programs.

[xeekei]

Both vendors' open source drivers are progressing nicely. I can't wait for the day when we can ignore the proprietary ones for most scenarios, or even all scenarios!

[profoundWHALE]

I understood that reference.

[Prescience500]

If everything in the following page's chart is checked off as "Done" then would dynamic power management be finished or would enabling dynamic power management be a separate task for after it's done?

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/PowerManagement/

[Dukenukemx]

Just in time for all the older Nvidia graphics to go legacy and thus no longer supported. It'll be a while before Nouveau catches up to Nvidia's drivers, but it'll be worth it.

[gufide]

Glad to see nouveau improving!

Yeah! Maybe one day bumblebee will no longer be needed. The switching support in the official driver is not doing quite well, and it does not support wayland at the moment.

[stqn]

Glad to see nouveau improving!

[MuPuF]

Not unless nvidia starts supplying info. Just look at how many years it took to solve it for these very few cards. How about others and new cards that will come out later? All have to be reverse-engineered which will probably be a slower process than nvidia releasing new cards.

No work happened on reclocking for quite some time. Devs are getting back at it though.

On my side, I am not done with thermal management and perf monitoring.

[eydee]

Basically confirming what I've been saying. This time next year, nouveau is going to be a high performance 3d driver.

Not unless nvidia starts supplying info. Just look at how many years it took to solve it for these very few cards. How about others and new cards that will come out later? All have to be reverse-engineered which will probably be a slower process than nvidia releasing new cards.