NVIDIA 355 Beta Linux Driver Released, Closer To Supporting Wayland/Mir

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 355 Beta Linux Driver Released, Closer To Supporting Wayland/Mir

NVIDIA this morning released their first public Linux driver beta in the 355.xx series, and it's quite an exciting update!..

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-355.06-Linux-Beta

[swoorup]

Hi Michael,

How sure can you be that this is a step towards targeting wayland/mir?

[Damian_Ivanov]

If you grep through the extracted directory of the nvidia installer you can find since some releases the wayland, i think it was libnvidia-wayland or something, forgot what it was.
I'd like to know when we can finally test nvidia on wayland...

[ciupenhauer]

What does full EGL support mean?

[ssokolow]

Hi Michael,

How sure can you be that this is a step towards targeting wayland/mir?

Accelerated Wayland depends on some of the EGL enhancements that were added.

[bakgwailo]

So is EGL no longer just on 32bit and has 64bit support? If so, I wonder if the kwin EGL renderer backend will now work on NVIDIA....

I was also kind of hoping we would see some performance work on Shadow of Mordor - one can dream, I guess.

[blackout23]

me@archlinux ~/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.06 % LANG=C grep -R wayland
Binary file libEGL_nvidia.so.0 matches
Binary file 32/libEGL_nvidia.so.0 matches

me@archlinux ~/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.06 % strings libEGL_nvidia.so.0 | grep wayland
?libnvidia-egl-wayland.so

me@archlinux ~/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.06 % LANG=C grep -R nvidia-modeset
Binary file libvdpau_nvidia.so.355.06 matches
Binary file libnvidia-opencl.so.355.06 matches
Binary file nvidia-installer matches
Binary file nvidia_drv.so matches
Binary file libcuda.so.355.06 matches
Binary file libnvidia-glcore.so.355.06 matches
Binary file libnvidia-glsi.so.355.06 matches
Binary file libnvidia-cfg.so.355.06 matches
Binary file libnvidia-ml.so.355.06 matches
Binary file libnvidia-eglcore.so.355.06 matches
Binary file libnvcuvid.so.355.06 matches
kernel/common/inc/nv-modeset-interface.h: * nvidia-modeset UNIX kernel modules.
kernel/common/inc/nv-modeset-interface.h: * The nvidia-modeset kernel module calls the nvidia kernel module's
kernel/common/inc/nv-modeset-interface.h: * dependencies. The nvidia-modeset kernel module doesn't need to
kernel/common/inc/nv-modeset-interface.h: * The RM API entry points which the nvidia-modeset kernel module should
kernel/common/inc/nv-modeset-interface.h: * The nvidia-modeset kernel module should assign version_string
kernel/common/inc/nv-modeset-interface.h: * mix nvidia and nvidia-modeset kernel modules from different
kernel/Makefile: # nvidia-modeset.mod.o and nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o. The kernel
Binary file 32/libvdpau_nvidia.so.355.06 matches
Binary file 32/libnvidia-opencl.so.355.06 matches
Binary file 32/libcuda.so.355.06 matches
Binary file 32/libnvidia-glcore.so.355.06 matches
Binary file 32/libnvidia-glsi.so.355.06 matches
Binary file 32/libnvidia-ml.so.355.06 matches
Binary file 32/libnvidia-eglcore.so.355.06 matches
Binary file 32/libnvcuvid.so.355.06 matches
Binary file nvidia-modprobe matches
.manifest:NVdriver nvidia-uvm nvidia-modeset nvidia nvidia0 nvidia1 nvidia2 nvidia3 nvidia4 nvidia5 nvidia6 nvidia7 nvidia-frontend
.manifest:NVdriver nvidia-uvm.ko nvidia-uvm.ko.gz nvidia-modeset.ko nvidia-modeset.ko.gz nvidia.o nvidia.ko nvidia.o.gz nvidia.ko.gz nvidia0.ko nvidia0.ko.gz nvidia1.ko nvidia1.ko.gz nvidia2.ko nvidia2.ko.gz nvidia3.ko nvidia3.ko.gz nvidia4.ko nvidia4.ko.gz nvidia5.ko nvidia5.ko.gz nvidia6.ko nvidia6.ko.gz nvidia7.ko nvidia7.ko.gz nvidia-frontend.ko nvidia-frontend.ko.gz

[computerquip]

What does full EGL support mean?

They support EGL by specification. What they don't support are the platform specific extensions. Michael should probably change his wording.

[M@yeulC]

Good news for nvidia owners... I must say I am very much tempted to ditch my 6850 and the OSS drivers for a good ol'nvidia card... But if doing so, why not ditch Linux altogether, and install windows 7, then ?

Come on, Khronos, we need vulkan for a good open source API implementation on all cards.

On a side note, I am tempted to start a draft for multi-gpu implementation in open source if I have some time to spare this year. Are there some starting points I could use ?

[grenadecx]

Good news for nvidia owners... I must say I am very much tempted to ditch my 6850 and the OSS drivers for a good ol'nvidia card... But if doing so, why not ditch Linux altogether, and install windows 7, then ?

Wait what? So you're saying the only reason you are staying with Linux is because of the graphic drivers? So is it an all or nothing open source drivers thing?

Seems kinda fucked up if you ask me.