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Is it safe to assume that this is being done for Intel before AMD/Nvidia due to the more open nature of Intel's drivers? (I had thought AMDGPU was supposed to b

Is it safe to assume that this is being done for Intel before AMD/Nvidia due to the more open nature of Intel's drivers? (I had thought AMDGPU was supposed to be better?) I'm just wondering if features like this can be used as a carrot/stick for AMD/NVIDIA -- "Hey, look what we can build and provide for Intel customers because their driver devs are at the table." On a separate note, insert here unending words of praise for the money and effort that Red Hat puts into Linux, and specifically technologies related to Linux on the desktop. systemd/logind, pulseaudio, pipewire, gnome, wayland (including porting various other projects)... all critical stuff that I see go unappreciated sometimes.

mjg59 8y ago
> Is it safe to assume that this is being done for Intel before AMD/Nvidia due to the more open nature of Intel's drivers? (I had thought AMDGPU was supposed to be better?) Not really - it's more that the functionality for copying the firmware's mode configuration into the kernel exists for the Intel gpu driver and nobody's done the work for the others. I spent a while back in 2011 or so looking at doing this for nouveau but never got things working sufficiently well to merge it.
tokai 8y ago
In my experience you cannot tar amd and nvidia with the same brush regarding linux drivers. I have been running fedora with a nvidia card for a couple of years. The open drivers have been unusable for me. Crashing the system at random - often mid installing the proprietary drivers, corrupting the display server (I got quite handy with dnf history rollback). The proprietary drivers have been made mush easier to install the last releases. But the same machine with windows gave way better performance. I recently bought an amd card. I just pop'ed in the card, booted the machine and the mesa drivers included with fedora worked without a hitch. The only thing I had to do was install vulkan to play f1 2017, other than that it has been plug'n'play with good performance.

mjg59 8y ago

> Is it safe to assume that this is being done for Intel before AMD/Nvidia due to the more open nature of Intel's drivers? (I had thought AMDGPU was supposed to be better?) Not really - it's more that the functionality for copying the firmware's mode configuration into the kernel exists for the Intel gpu driver and nobody's done the work for the others. I spent a while back in 2011 or so looking at doing this for nouveau but never got things working sufficiently well to merge it.

tokai 8y ago

In my experience you cannot tar amd and nvidia with the same brush regarding linux drivers. I have been running fedora with a nvidia card for a couple of years. The open drivers have been unusable for me. Crashing the system at random - often mid installing the proprietary drivers, corrupting the display server (I got quite handy with dnf history rollback). The proprietary drivers have been made mush easier to install the last releases. But the same machine with windows gave way better performance. I recently bought an amd card. I just pop'ed in the card, booted the machine and the mesa drivers included with fedora worked without a hitch. The only thing I had to do was install vulkan to play f1 2017, other than that it has been plug'n'play with good performance.