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The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] OldPain 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So what does this mean? He was the main contributer. Is Nouveau the only open source driver Nvidia cards can use on Linux?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The article answers your question

[–] OldPain 18 points 1 year ago

Read the article and was confused. Good thing there's a comment section to ask questions.

[+] OscarRobin 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So there's quite a few errors here:

NVIDIA creating an open source driver (well, throwing code over the wall once in a while is still open source I guess) does not mean there's an upstream driver. The kernel maintainers have already noted that it's definitely not in any shape to be merged upstream (and would need close to a full rewrite)
"He's resigning because he thinks the community should focus on that driver instead now" is completely false and I have no idea how you even got to that conclusion. Literally on the same day he posted this email, he also posted initial GSP support which specifically gives us a bright future in nouveau, as it means we can now do funky stuff like reclocking (and which will be further developed by some other people in his team at RH).

[–] OldPain 2 points 1 year ago

That clears up my specific confusion perfectly! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Me when I lie on the internet:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

33 people who upvoted this (as of writing) now have misinformation in their heads, which they'll probably spread around the internet thanks to you.