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Originally posted by birdie View Post
You sound like a mighty retard. No piece of modern hardware can run without firmware. NVIDIA is just a little bit too restrictive and paranoid in regard to Maxwell v2 - i.e. its firmware is also responsible for reclocking and fan management. In case of AMD you are free to burn your GPU to ashes. NVIDIA somehow is not content with that.
well in fact no. The firmware doesn't reclock. There are some scripts executed by the PMU to reclock memory, but this is generated on the Host on the fly and the reason why it is done on the PMU is soly that you can disconnect some stuff from memory.
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Originally posted by wodencafe View PostI might sound like a dick by asking this, but doesn't the whole situation with Nouveau mean that NVIDIA has their cake and gets to eat it, too?
They force the Open Source community to rely on "Signed Firmware Blobs" (which sounds an awful lot like a proprietary driver to me) and still keep their hardware internals mostly secret and closed, and they abstract away anything else and leave it to the community to implement - which is mostly being done by volunteers (The Nouveau team), for free.
In fact, the "Signed Firmware Blobs" are completely counter-intuitive to the reasoning behind Nouveau: An Open Source Driver for NVIDIA Video Cards.
Does NVIDIA's choice not pigeon-hole Nouveau as an "Open Source Wrapper" rather than a Driver?
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Originally posted by wodencafe View Post
Finally some criticism of Binary Drivers that goes beyond philosophical arguments.
I agree with the spirit of this post, but when the alternative driver isn't as stable or powerful, it's forced the community to ask themselves which they value more: freedom for their hardware / software, or the best performance from their hardware / software.
Seemingly, these two sentiments are incompatible in NVIDIA's business world, and the dissonance between them has really created a crisis in the open source, tech enthusiast community.
right, I also use the nvidia driver for some games where nouveau is really bad, but I also try to figure out why that is. for some games nouveau already achieves more than 70% performance and this is fine, where for others it is only around 30%
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Originally posted by rene View Post
I will never use binary only blob crap. New kernel, xorg, etc? Wait for their binary only update. Want to do GPU driver and architecture research and development? Out of luck. Want to run on PowerPC, UltraSPARC or ARM64? Good luck either.
Everyone who wants binary only blobs can go back to windows.
I agree with the spirit of this post, but when the alternative driver isn't as stable or powerful, it's forced the community to ask themselves which they value more: freedom for their hardware / software, or the best performance from their hardware / software.
Seemingly, these two sentiments are incompatible in NVIDIA's business world, and the dissonance between them has really created a crisis in the open source, tech enthusiast community.
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Originally posted by debianxfce View Post
Sorry that a fact hurts nouveau developers feelings. We have 3 nvidia users here, no use for nouveau ever. I did even try it with 8400gt, but boot was slow and graphics corrupted. So if a display driver is not ok for office use, it is really bad.
is there a case for the binary blob? Sure, a hard core gamer with the latest Nvidia card is going to want to run the binary blob, no question. Someone like me who mostly works, but sometimes plays some 3D FPS like nexuiz or openarena etc, will find the Nouveau driver ideal. It's great to have a choice.
Different strokes for different folks
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Originally posted by debianxfce View Post
Sorry that a fact hurts nouveau developers feelings. We have 3 nvidia users here, no use for nouveau ever. I did even try it with 8400gt, but boot was slow and graphics corrupted. So if a display driver is not ok for office use, it is really bad.
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Originally posted by debianxfce View Post
Sorry that a fact hurts nouveau developers feelings. We have 3 nvidia users here, no use for nouveau ever. I did even try it with 8400gt, but boot was slow and graphics corrupted. So if a display driver is not ok for office use, it is really bad.
Binary only driver are cancer in the open source world.
I'm thankful to all the nouveau developers for being able to use 3D acceleration on my G5:
Everyone who wants binary only blobs can go back to windows.Last edited by rene; 28 March 2016, 01:11 PM.
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Originally posted by bug77 View Post
Not really it is (and always has been) a bootstrap solution till you can install the real driver.
Also, you have to admire nvidia's consistency, when nouveau looses, it looses soundly and across the board. Unlike amdgpu :P
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Originally posted by wodencafe View PostIn fact, the "Signed Firmware Blobs" are completely counter-intuitive to the reasoning behind Nouveau: An Open Source Driver for NVIDIA Video Cards.
Does NVIDIA's choice not pigeon-hole Nouveau as an "Open Source Wrapper" rather than a Driver?
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