The Linux Milestones That Didn't Make It This Winter

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Linux Milestones That Didn't Make It This Winter

While this winter brought many exciting milestones for Linux and open-source fans, there's also some milestones/features hoped for this winter that haven't yet come to fruition...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Winter-2014-Missing

[gens]

something good for linux as an OS, that is in the works and never mentioned

[dungeon]

Winter was cold, one thing for sure - summer will be hot

[Calinou]

The Nouveau re-clocking support is still in bad shape for the open-source NVIDIA DRM driver. Modern desktop NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards can't properly re-clock to hit their targeted frequencies and thus the performance tends to be a mess. There's been progress in re-clocking various generations of NVIDIA GPUs via this reverse-engineered driver, but for most Nouveau users out there the re-clocking isn't yet usable. Nouveau at the reduced clock speeds can tend to be "good enough" for running a modern Linux desktop, but any gaming tends to be rather slow.

I have a Fermi card, and as I switched to Nouveau recently, would really like to see work on at least having power state 1 reclocking (it'd be enough for me). I heard fan control is mostly done, so that's not a problem.

[Prescience500]

Considering that I have an NV50 era card, I'd really like to see full reclocking and dynamic power management in nouvou. I kinda wish that they focused their NV50 efforts on that rather than new features that don't exist in NV50's proprietary drivers. If I had full reclocking and DPM, I might be able to dump the proprietary drivers without making most of my games unplayable.

[nanonyme]

Winter was cold, one thing for sure - summer will be hot

We had a pretty mild Winter thus far in Finland. I somewhat suspect this will not mean Summer will be cool but instead a total inferno

[stiiixy]

We had a pretty mild Winter thus far in Finland. I somewhat suspect this will not mean Summer will be cool but instead a total inferno

Winter's coming. It's Autumn down here and the gauge is sitting at a cool 25 degree's* right now. Mmm, mild. Would be nice to be able to run the laptop like it should be, mobile. Bloody thing keeps shutting down when I get my game on in public.

*celsius, you non-metric Apes

[Veske]

What exactly would the KMS implementation in Nvidia driver change for the end user?

[duby229]

Winter's coming. It's Autumn down here and the gauge is sitting at a cool 25 degree's* right now. Mmm, mild. Would be nice to be able to run the laptop like it should be, mobile. Bloody thing keeps shutting down when I get my game on in public.

*celsius, you non-metric Apes

OT: Yeah, I hear 25c and spend a minute or more trying to remember the conversion.

[bridgman]

First day of spring in the Great White North. Don't think we've reached 25C yet.