NVIDIA Linux Developers Don't Sound Too Happy About The ChromeOS Driver Approach

[cj.wijtmans]

so any benchmarks on whats more efficient yet?

[justmy2cents]

i foretell the future where we will see article on phoronix that Kristian Høgsberg responded on wayland mailing list. there was so much mentioning he is absent that it would almost count as miracle if this wouldn't happen

[Daktyl198]

Good for them. I guess? I don't remember anybody ever bringing up ChromeOS as an example of "the right way to do drivers" and there sure as hell isn't any ChromeOS specific extensions getting added to the Wayland spec so this discussion is pointless to the overall discussion. Are the NVidia guys just trying to find a bad guy worse than them in this situation so that when people look at their solution, all they see is "not as bad as..."?

[GreatEmerald]

Man, this is almost enough to warrant another Ace Attorney case. Almost. (And I don't have the needed technical expertise for this particular discussion...)

[W.Irrkopf]

It's nice to see the matter of fact tone of the discussion.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Linux Developers Don't Sound Too Happy About The ChromeOS Driver Approach

The discussion over NVIDIA's patches to Wayland has fired back up this week with NVIDIA and upstream Wayland developers seeing different views on the matter. In the latest email exchanges, a comparison to ChromeOS was brought up...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Chrome-OS-Unhappy