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> What about Nvidia's GPUs, community relations or [insert other topic] hobbles their open source one so thoroughly compared to AMD? AMD provides public docume
by Nullabillity 10y ago
> What about Nvidia's GPUs, community relations or [insert other topic] hobbles their open source one so thoroughly compared to AMD?
AMD provides public documentation for how the driver should interact with their GPUs, Nvidia does not.
Oh, and AMD employs some of the people developing the open Radeon and AMDGPU (non-pro) drivers, while AFAIK Nouveau is a pure community project.
- SXX 10y agoNo idea if it's still the case, but at least Ben Skeggs and might be one more developer worked on Nouveau full time for Red Hat.