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AMD Contributes 8.5x More Code to the Linux Kernel Than Nvidia
- lettergram 8y agoTo be fair... AMD also makes CPUs and APUs. In addition, the community around AMD was smaller for quite a long time. Not saying it's not good to contribute (it is), but perspective.
- monocasa 8y agoSo does NVIDIA, really; if you squint hard enough there's not a huge difference between an SoC with a GPU focus and an APU.
- candiodari 8y agoNVIDIA has actual processors too: https://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-4-processor.html https://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-4-processor.html There's also embedded stuff.
- monocasa 8y agoSure, when I say "SoC with a GPU focus" I'm talking about Tegra.
- agnsaft 8y agoShould be somewhat careful with using LOC as a decent metric for code
- monocasa 8y agoBut in real terms, AMD is migrating their proprietary user space drivers to run on fully open source kernel drivers. It'll be an awfully chilly day in hell when Nvidia decides to do something similar.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoI'm running a Radeon RX560 (replaced an Nvidia card), using the open source AMDGPU kernel driver and Mesa. It's seamless and works at least equal to (probably better than) the proprietary Nvidia drivers.
- noir_lord 8y agoRX460 and the same, used it since June 2018 with not a single problem.
- bjoli 8y agoI went with Radeon as well because their open source drivers. I am a very happy user. No more bad surprises when updating kernel, which has saved me more time than I'd like to admit, since I used Nvidia because of performance.
- c487bd62 8y agoAFAIK AMD also goes out of their way to provide support. NVIDIA I'm not so sure e.g. EGLStream and Wayland, Optimus, G-SYNC
- anfilt 8y agoWell it's not perfect, but can you give some idea. Some times removing code and adding back a small chunk of code can be helpful. That would give only a negative LOC, so yes it has problems. However, it's definitely one those things that I don't think will ever have perfect generalize-able metric.
- rasz 8y agoYeah, remember that time AMD dropped 100K LOC of garbage on Kernel maintainers?
- stormcrowsx 8y agoDid they fix it?
- tapirl 8y agoUsing nvidia card on Linux is a pain.