Yesterday's message from Andy Ritger (NVIDIA rep) on Noveau's mailing list
Hello Noveau developers,
NVIDIA is releasing public documentation on certain aspects of our GPUs, with the intention of addressing areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau. We plan to provide more documentation over time, and guidance in additional areas when we can.
As a first step, we post a document here:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/open-gpu-doc/DCB/1/DCB-4.0-Specification.html
which documents the drawing of the Device Control Block ("DCB") in VBIOS. The DCB describes the topology of the board and its display connectors.
I suspect that much of the information in the document is not new to the Nouveau community, but we hope it will be helpful in confirming your understanding or supplementing the implementation in some edge cases.
A few workers on the proprietary NVIDIA Linux driver will pay attention to nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org and try to chat when we can.
If there are specific areas of the documentation that could help you, that feedback would help NVIDIA prioritize our documentation efforts.
If you have questions specific to NVIDIA, you can ask them here, or direct them to: open-gpu-doc at nvidia.com. I can't promise we can answer everything, but we will do our best in areas where we can.
Thank you,
- Andy Ritger
Response from Maarten Lankhorst (Canonical worker)
Come on fuck! 😀
Our main issue at the moment is video clocking and power management, which is very device specific and dependent on settings. A complete documentation of the VBIOS would also be nice, I understand that it will take more time than just the dcb. 🙂
~ Maarten
Ok, it's already reality. Gabe Newell froze hell and made reality what tons of campaigns didn't ……… loosen up NVIDIA. I just need to find a picture of Linus Torvalds with his thumb up and saying "NVIDIA, Fuck Yeah !!"
"Gabe Newell froze hell" hahahaha INDEED!
let's hope for improvements and for it to become reality this is the only thing that GNU / Linux needs to take off ...
You mean the hell of video cards being overheated by current Noveau drivers?
Great news, although the truth is, I would prefer the drivers to be released directly
well ... let's keep dreaming, it totally doesn't hurt anyone. 😛
although in this case I think that there to settle for what there is ... even if it is little ... 🙁
Hopefully they release the full specifications once and for all and stop going around giving crumbs, right now ATI / AMD releases more specifications than they do. Fuck you nVidia, Fuck you Ati.
Yes, but it is something weird, AMD releases more specification but the Catalysts are ASCO, Nvidia already releases documentation but their R3.xx drivers are brutal… ._.
Amd releases specifications exactly because it knows that its official driver is very bad in linux, it has serious opengl problems, then I compared it with the one in windows and tried for example to launch vlc with the opengl output in windows 8, and there were the same rare problems , so I'm assuming these are inherited issues.
Great news!
Really that "let's go to hell" is practically what everyone said when they read the news xD. Let's hope that little by little they will release more things for the nouveau drivers to improve 😀
And the year of Linux is getting stronger
Finally Noveau will be worth using. Now, I hope that the next versions of Noveau will be ready in distros like trisquel and parabola.
Thanks Gabe for the favor granted http://unregistered.gr/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Gabe-Newell-Saint.jpg
If Gnu / Linux becomes a successful gaming platform, we will benefit many directly and indirectly iado
Could it be that with all this Mir, Wayland and Steam they want to take the weight off their shoulders and let the Nouveau do the work?
Don't pay too much attention to me, that just came to mind.
Gave's pressure is clearly paying off, but we must be cautious.
SteamOS announced, and 2 days at most ... Nvidia says this ... coincidence? Let's see if it is true that this is the year of linux. I'm sick of my Windows acquaintances who want to put windows up to my ears: P.
"Let's go to hell!" It does not put it in the original message but it explains quite well the feelings of many linux users.
But let's not forget that this movement is only due to movements in the console sector (if I'm not mistaken, the playstation 3 had Linux as an OS). Valve's announcement of its console and its version of linux is just one of the latest news in this regard.
In my view, Nvidia has an advantage with its drivers for linux, ahead of AMD and the "collaboration" with Noveau is not unreasonable, let's just remember what happened with the SiS graphics whose driver for linux (free and created from reverse engineering) included features that the Windows driver does not have.
We will see how this evolves, I would not be surprised if Nvidia shelved the matter and prohibited this collaboration.
I don't like this Linux year at all. A wave of proprietary Linux software is coming.
It's not like they're going to force you to use it.
Please correct this translation because I don't think ":) Thanks, Maarten" means "Let's go fuck it!" 😀 »these types of articles cause misunderstandings