Red Hat Developer Manages Full Clock-Gating For Kepler With Nouveau

[rene]

but more fun!

only if you have someone paying for all the time spend, ...

[rene]

I really don't how understand security is anything to be concerned about, especially considering the amount of effort it takes to reverse-engineer Nvidia's work.
Also, Nvidia never had support for PPC (except maybe older models for Mac), and Kepler GPUs probably demand more PCIe bandwidth than what a G5 has to offer. So even if Nvidia had any obligation to get newer GPUs to work on PPC, they wouldn't be worth using anyway.
As for DragonlyBSD (or other BSDs), I thought Nvidia supplied working closed-source drivers for the BSDs?

Like mentioned earlier, just go for Intel or AMD. As of today, the only reason to pick Nvidia over AMD for Linux is for:
* The software support from the closed-source drivers (which you already established you can't use)
* The extra features supplied by the closed-source drivers
* The performance you get from a 1080Ti or Titan Xp (which neither your G5 nor Nouveau are going to take advantage of)

Fun fact - when I ordered the G5 for Linux PowerPC development I intentionally chooses the cheapest entry level graphic option fully knowing I will for many years not be able to make more us of it than a dump frame buffer. And so it was. Still a perfectly fine machine. To connect a 4k display for screen real estate and crystal sharp HiDPI fonts? Of course I replicated the Nvidia junk with an AMD one. Because those just work. Also on PowerPC or whatever I may want to use.

If you want to run closed source install Windows, otherwise it is a peace of cancer in your open source Linux landscape.

[rene]

So buy AMD or Intel..

AMD of course, only. And that is what I recumbent to every open source user.

[pal666]

You don't have to. You can use Nvidia's driver. But then, you already knew that...

reverse engineering allows you to infer design from product. use of nvidia blob doesn't

[pal666]

but more fun!

i'm not sure how much fun is for redhat to pay for this

[pal666]

Like mentioned earlier, just go for Intel or AMD. As of today, the only reason to pick Nvidia over AMD for Linux is for:
* The software support from the closed-source drivers (which you already established you can't use)
* The extra features supplied by the closed-source drivers
* The performance you get from a 1080Ti or Titan Xp (which neither your G5 nor Nouveau are going to take advantage of)

in all those cases you are already using windows anyway

[karolherbst]

only if you have someone paying for all the time spend, ...

??? pease explain why somebody needs to pay for it, so that it becomes fun? I don't see how the concept of fun is related to getting paid at all.

[nanonyme]

??? pease explain why somebody needs to pay for it, so that it becomes fun? I don't see how the concept of fun is related to getting paid at all.

Maybe they're meaning you invest more time that way and for many time is a bottleneck due to day job

[karolherbst]

Maybe they're meaning you invest more time that way and for many time is a bottleneck due to day job

right, but I am now wondering why anybody here would actually care enough to bring it up. I mean there might be valid business reasons for that to happen or maybe not? I can't tell you.

[rene]

??? pease explain why somebody needs to pay for it, so that it becomes fun? I don't see how the concept of fun is related to getting paid at all.

people also need to pay for things in live, food, rent, ... and this is a multiple year reversing effort, ...