NVIDIA Open-Source Christmas Present: Some Documentation

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Open-Source Christmas Present: Some Documentation

It seems a few days ago NVIDIA quietly released some documentation to help open-source driver developers working on Nouveau...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Docs-Tex-Header

[schmidtbag]

Are they intending to release more later? It seems to me that maybe nvidia is just starting to write documentation and releasing it as they go along.

[bug77]

Afaik, nvidia has always looked at nouveau as a bootstrap solution to allow you to install the real driver. It worked for me just fine, but I won't complain if they choose to be more open-source friendly.

[boffo]

Are they intending to release more later? It seems to me that maybe nvidia is just starting to write documentation and releasing it as they go along.

quote, it's something

[remm]

Signed firmware please

[Sonadow]

Signed firmware please

Was just about to say that. It's great for the nouveau developers that documentation is forthcoming, but we users need the firmware blobs, especially for Maxwell and above.

[eydee]

It would be funny to see nouveau properly reclocking sooner than amdgpu. Wouldn't be that surprising though...

[mcirsta]

Well until NVIDIA properly support an open source driver on Linux I'm getting just AMD cards, I don't really care about their binary blob and small almost insignificant attempts like this.

[agd5f]

It would be funny to see nouveau properly reclocking sooner than amdgpu. Wouldn't be that surprising though...

Give me a break. We have had dynamic power management support for all supported asics with radeon for years. We had dynamic power management support for APUs in amdgpu upstream prior to hw launch time and we are working on getting support for amdgpu dGPUs upstream now.

[microcode]

Give me a break. We have had dynamic power management support for all supported asics with radeon for years. We had dynamic power management support for APUs in amdgpu upstream prior to hw launch time and we are working on getting support for amdgpu dGPUs upstream now.

For some, the propaganda is irresistable. ;-)