Nouveau vs. Modesetting X.Org Drivers For Open-Source NVIDIA Users

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nouveau vs. Modesetting X.Org Drivers For Open-Source NVIDIA Users

As a result of comments made on the recent Intel's Unreleased 3.0 X.Org Driver Gets More Fixes For DRI3/Present article, a reader inquired to the Nouveau developers about the X.Org DDX driver options for open-source NVIDIA users on Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-Vs-Modesetting

[baka0815]

Benchmarks, plz!

[pq1930562]

Michael :

Your news should have included the comments from Chris Wilson (xf86-video-intel) and Alex Deucher (xf86-video-amdgpu / xf86-video-ati) as well:

"Ditching xf86-video-amdgpu in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?"

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94841

"Ditching xf86-video-ati in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?"

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94842

"Ditching xf86-video-intel in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?"

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94843

"Ditching xf86-video-nouveau in favor of xf86-video-modesetting?"

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94844

[haagch]

this DDX driver can be used without Nouveau's OpenGL driver (unlike the mode-setting driver when wanting GLAMOR acceleration),

Uhm, glamor can be used with llvmpipe, no?

[bridgman]

Yes, but you would have to change all the documentation to call it "GLAMOR deceleration" instead of "GLAMOR acceleration".

[Delgarde]

Your news should have included the comments from Chris Wilson (xf86-video-intel) and Alex Deucher (xf86-video-amdgpu / xf86-video-ati) as well:

You mean the ones that amount to "fuck off back to Phoronix forums, and stop spamming our bug tracker"?

[bridgman]

That might have been me

[Delgarde]

That might have been me

Well, you're the one who actually said it... but I think the implication from the others was pretty clear too...