NVIDIA/Nouveau PerfKit Implemented Over Gallium3D State Tracker

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA/Nouveau PerfKit Implemented Over Gallium3D State Tracker

Samuel Pitoiset today unveiled his long sought after patches for implementing NVIDIA's PerfKit performance utility as a Gallium3D state tracker for use by the open-source Linux graphics drivers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Gallium3D-PerfKit-NVIDIA

[duby229]

Really cool!

This is not spported by Nvidia officially? What will nvidia think about calling it the same name I wonder? And AMD devs, would they consider implementing support for this state tracker in their drivers?

[wodencafe]

What will nvidia think about calling it the same name I wonder?

Seems like sort of a grey area.

While the article calls the implementation "an open-source NVIDIA PerfKit-like solution", it also is a result of implementing the PerfKit 3.0.1 interface.