Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

Nouveau Gains Reverse PRIME Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Nouveau on 6 February 2013 at 08:43 AM EST. 11 Comments

The open-source Nouveau driver now has "Reverse PRIME" support.

There's already been PRIME support in place so that NVIDIA Optimus laptops with Intel and NVIDIA graphics cards could have the NVIDIA rendering scanned-out over the integrated Intel graphics. The Reverse PRIME implementation is the opposite: the NVIDIA GPU can now scan-out what's being rendered by the Intel graphics processor.

The Reverse PRIME support came fairly easy with the other pieces of the puzzle in place and happened with this commit to the xf86-video-nouveau X.Org driver.

11 Comments

Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set

More NVK Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 24.3

NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver

Nouveau DRM_Panic Being Worked On For Linux "Blue Screen Of Death" Type Situations

RFC Patches Posted For Rust-Written NVIDIA "Nova" GPU Driver

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.