The result? A perfectly valid and valuable technology has been completely disregarded by the public
No. Stop. If blockchain, nfts, etc. had actual merit over what we already have rn, they would be used everywhere. But ever since the inception of the og blockchain, they do not. Because there is not a single actual use case of them that isn't already done (and done better) by other tech.
So stop this "oh it was good, just misunderstood" nonsense. It was never good, and never will be.
What AI does lands more on "tracing" side than "referencing" side though
Yes, but that license change took them quite a while after the first release of the open kernel module, and still, that's only for the GSP firmware. Nothing of the sort is the case for the PMU firmware that could be used for Maxwell and Pascal*.
(*Fun fact, there is actually some code for power management for Maxwell series at least (not upstreamed I presume), Nouveau devs even demonstrated NVK via playing Hollow Knight on a GTX950m, which ran the game pretty smoothly, the main issue seems to be not being able to control the fans of the GPU due to the firmware, something that was not really a problem for the particular laptop they've done the demonstration on)
Edit: My bad, it was a GTX980m instead: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gfxstrand/110311684373260454
And that said one guy is actually an alt account of someone who was banned a long time ago, so the guy is literally evading a ban, and yet Michael is doing jack shit about it. Guess it works on his end as it is "hurr durr interaction".
Tbh all nVidia should've done was to make their firmware available and easily redistributable. Them locking down their hardware down to the firmware level is what killed the development of Nouveau.
They don't need to step up to the plate, just don't block the guys who are willing to do the necessary work themselves
Ahoy there friend~!
Here is hoping! And welcome aboard, man!
This one literally runs on Quake 1 engine (albeit improved)