Nouveau Still Working To Support The GP108 / NVIDIA GT 1030

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nouveau Still Working To Support The GP108 / NVIDIA GT 1030

Nouveau developers continue working to support the GeForce GT 1030 "GP108" graphics processor that unfortunately is lagging behind the other Pascal GPUs in their open-source NVIDIA driver coverage...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-GP108-Upbringing

[Azrael5]

what is meant to mean no signed firmware? How can be commercialized a product unable to work?

[schmidtbag]

what is meant to mean no signed firmware? How can be commercialized a product unable to work?

To my understanding, it's basically an encryption key, where the hardware won't work unless you have the proper driver signature. You could argue this is for security reasons, because the complexity and low-level nature of GPUs could allow malicious drivers to get the GPU to do things you don't want it to do. But, I'm not aware of anyone who ever took advantage of non-signable firmware.

[Azrael5]

To my understanding, it's basically an encryption key, where the hardware won't work unless you have the proper driver signature. You could argue this is for security reasons, because the complexity and low-level nature of GPUs could allow malicious drivers to get the GPU to do things you don't want it to do. But, I'm not aware of anyone who ever took advantage of non-signable firmware.

thanks for reply. So the limitation would be the videocard works only by proprietary driver?

[schmidtbag]

thanks for reply. So the limitation would be the videocard works only by proprietary driver?

That, or if the nouveau devs can create their own signed firmware that the GPU accepts. From what I can tell, this is no easy task. Kind of the sole purpose of a signature is to prove authenticity, so if you break that signature, that kind of defeats the purpose of it. So, it's within Nvidia's interest to make the signature secure.
This is also why firmware tends to be closed-source: if you open-source it then what's the point of having the signature?

[pinguinpc]

what is meant to mean no signed firmware? How can be commercialized a product unable to work?

Easily nvidia cards require propietary drivers*, specially in most newer cards case pascal based cards

*Nvidia dont have interest in open source drivers, only interest work for display screen but nothing more

[aufkrawall]

Kudos to the Nouveau devs, but Nouveau isn't good for anything more than outputting an image to the display anyway (at least for "desktop" Linux usage). And even then you better stick to xf86 vesa/fbdev drivers for stability.
Sell or don't buy Nvidia if you want open source drivers, any false hope in Nouveau should be buried for good.

[pinguinpc]

Kudos to the Nouveau devs, but Nouveau isn't good for anything more than outputting an image to the display anyway (at least for "desktop" Linux usage).

nd even then you better stick to xf86 vesa/fbdev drivers for stability.

Sell or don't buy Nvidia if you want open source drivers, any false hope in Nouveau should be buried for good.

If you buy nvidia card, is logical dont have any problem with use propietary driver (if you buy card for opensource driver, amd is better way)

For mental sanity yes

[karolherbst]

Kudos to the Nouveau devs, but Nouveau isn't good for anything more than outputting an image to the display anyway (at least for "desktop" Linux usage). And even then you better stick to xf86 vesa/fbdev drivers for stability.
Sell or don't buy Nvidia if you want open source drivers, any false hope in Nouveau should be buried for good.

troll somewhere else

[aufkrawall]

Am I? Is openSUSE installer warning about Nouveau being unstable also trolling?