NVIDIA's "Open-Source Guy" Has Left The Company

[Adarion]

I wonder what that will mean for Nouveau. Establishing a new contact for firmware files and stuff could set back the project somewhat.
Hmm. For my part I'd welcome those nouveau folks to work on the AMD freedom stack if they become too frustrated working on nv hardware.

[andrei_me]

to work on the AMD freedom stack if they become too frustrated working on nv hardware.

Although frustrating to work with, some nouveau developers said that this is the fun part of nouveau, trying to discover how the hardware work through reverse engineering, also the joked saying that AMD stuff is "too easy" with documentation included

[DMJC]

If you want nouveau to work better, maybe you should get some serial cables and boards and start working on it yourself. Noone owes you a working open source driver. This is still mostly a volunteer effort you know. Ultimately I think NVIDIA is going to have to open up more of their driver just to get multi GPU support working properly with Intel integrated graphics. Being able to hotswitch between cards is becoming the norm and there's significant issues with swapping between OpenGL library implementations.

[Mangix]

Although frustrating to work with, some nouveau developers said that this is the fun part of nouveau, trying to discover how the hardware work through reverse engineering, also the joked saying that AMD stuff is "too easy" with documentation included

Not what I've gathered from the IRC channel. They're really pissed at how Nvidia released PMU firmware for the Jetson TX2 (Pascal) but for no other GPUs. In addition signed firmware means reverse engineering is harder.

[bug77]

If you want nouveau to work better, maybe you should get some serial cables and boards and start working on it yourself. Noone owes you a working open source driver. This is still mostly a volunteer effort you know. Ultimately I think NVIDIA is going to have to open up more of their driver just to get multi GPU support working properly with Intel integrated graphics. Being able to hotswitch between cards is becoming the norm and there's significant issues with swapping between OpenGL library implementations.

This cute misconception again. Nobody open sources their drivers. The write them anew. Big difference.

[pal666]

egra has possibly the only embedded GPU that has something resembling open source support.

where did you get that from? vc4, vivante and adreno have open source support in mesa

[MrCooper]

Awkwardly enough, Tegra has possibly the only embedded GPU that has something resembling open source support.

AMD embedded GPUs are supported by our open source drivers.

[creative]

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf oh no wait I already did that.

[coder]

My bet is that Alex is off to work for Softbank, or a subsidiary of (you know, the mob that bought ARM) with their drivers. it would be cool if he can get a bit more of their code opened

I had the exact same hope. Perhaps it's wishful thinking...

[bug77]

AMD embedded GPUs are supported by our open source drivers.

Wow, AMD has embedded GPUs? I did not know that.