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[karolherbst]

well as RSpliet already said: we mainly do it for ourselves and the community. And it's fun, I wouldn't work on it if it wouldn't be fun....

[karolherbst]

well for modesetting you don't need signed firmwares, but we can't just turn it on for every not yet released hardware. There are usually changed in the...

[karolherbst]

It doesn't work in any automatic way. Also the firmwares aren't in a way in the driver, where we could easily extract those. Extracting video acceleration...

[karolherbst]

There is also pierre, who wants to finish the SPIR-V to nv50ir work to support OpenCL on Nouveau.

But we know that we need to do something...

[karolherbst]

well, ben works on Nouveau for Red Hat....

[karolherbst]

uhhh, well that might be true, but we simply ask to at least help us out with their signed firmware situation. It doesn't change a thing for the IP situation....

[karolherbst]

uhm... for me it is because it is fun....

[karolherbst]

Well it depends actually on the job. If it would be Nvidia and they disallow me to work on Nouveau (which would be quite likely), then I would say no....

[karolherbst]

well it always depends on the case. But in the current state we are fairly sure it would require a lot of convincing from Nvidia sides, that it is a good...

[karolherbst]

well, on Nvidia depending on the quality of the board, the voltage selection changes giving clock states a voltage requirement which can't be reached...

[karolherbst]

well, Nouveau works best in terms of performance (tm) for the 780 Ti, that's just the way it is. You can actually also reclock a 980 Ti or something,...

[karolherbst]

Yeah, there are already plans to have better coverage on older hardware as well, just a matter of time when we are able to actually start working on this,...

[karolherbst]

Well there is also a Nouveau tree for the Pixel C where Nvidia is actually using Nouveau as well. It's just that there is hardly any communication and...

[karolherbst]

it is fun...

[karolherbst]

There are many reasons, but the most important ones are:
1. there won't be two drivers supporting the same devices
2. NVGPU only supports...

[karolherbst]

Do you by any chance have a middle perf level? I know that there are some issues left with higher ones on a low amount of cards I try to debug right ...

[karolherbst]

I just made fun of nvidia, because there is no good reason




exactly, most/all Nouveau devs do it because it's fun, m...

[karolherbst]

well starting with a 4.12 kernel it should be stable enough already for most GPUs. And I doubt the latter is true for that reason. Might be the result...

[karolherbst]

none, because working on AMD means reading specs -> not what RE is all about....

[karolherbst]

most likely to "protect" the hardware against damages by messing with the fan ...