What Do You Want From Linux GPU Drivers In 2010?

[deanjo]

Working Suspend resume on NVIDIA binary.

STD or STR? STR is working here, haven't tried STD.

[RealNC]

Open source ATI drivers:
- Good power management
- Thorough DRI2 support
- Complete and high performance OpenGL support
- VDPAU :P

Catalyst for Linux:
- 2D support as fast as the open drivers
- Correct XV support
- VSync on composited desktops
- Video acceleration worthy of that name (like NVidia's VDPAU)

So in short: both drivers should work and perform as one would expect from a Windows driver :P

[tomm3h]

Would love some open-source support for the XvBA acceleration, to go with the full 3D & KMS for R600/R700. Though on the latter I can see (on a daily basis) how hard everyone's working - it's all very-much appreciated.

[rmartinez]

I would like to see hybrid graphic configuration been implemented in open source drivers. Thanks!

[Killigrew]

Hi

Dynamic Power management is the most important Feature for me
because Power consumption is very important, not only on Notebooks.

greetings

[droidhacker]

R600/700/800 G3D including video decode acceleration.

[sylware]

From NVIDIA, I expect hardware programming manual publishing and to stop their binary driver and to join forces on proper Linux dev.
From ATI/AMD, faster hardware programming specs pusblishing and same fate than nvidia for their binary driver.

[intgr]

Open source drivers:
1. Power management (yeah, I made the mistake of buying a high-end graphics card even though I don't play games)
2. Kernel modesetting (mostly solved by now)

[TeoLinuX]

I second the suggestions by everybody preceding me...
And I think we can summarize all the posts with one single sentence:

our hardware has certain features.. we'd like the drivers to exploit/enable those features!!!! (Let me say, feature parity with windows...)

First we want basic things to work: 2D, resume/suspend, video accel... then evolute features: 3D, HDMI, GPU computing...

Some of use is even concerned about the WAY this could be achieved:
via proprietary/closed source rather than via open source drivers... by using modern/fancy/fashion technologies such as gallium3D, or OpenCL, KMS or DRI2

That's what we want! we want our hardware to show the features it was designed to!!!!

* one consideration is to add here: it's not only a matter of drivers. Drivers are a layer between hardware and OS... if some part of the OS environment is broken or its design is old or not fit yet to allow some technology (think of X server) then it's not only drivers' fault. In those cases drivers designers should wait for Linux to evolve or overwrite parts of it (as happens with nVidia closed drivers)

[deanjo]

From NVIDIA, I expect hardware programming manual publishing and to stop their binary driver and to join forces on proper Linux dev.
From ATI/AMD, faster hardware programming specs pusblishing and same fate than nvidia for their binary driver.

Maybe we should focus on realistic expectations.