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It could be quite interesting to outline just how far back in time this started (with lots of details), considering those demands to open-source certain code th
by exikyut 4y ago
It could be quite interesting to outline just how far back in time this started (with lots of details), considering those demands to open-source certain code that were apparently made around March 3rd this year.
My own motivation is to believe that NVidia isn't as broken as everyone insists it is, I guess :) and more broadly speaking it honestly seems like a Good And Interesting Idea to make the situation more clear in any case, particularly given the coverage and significant collective awareness it's attracted.
Also, I found https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Big-New-Driver-Coming https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Big-New-... in another comment - 22 May to 12 May, that's some serious stamina lol
- bcatanzaro 4y agoThis functionality has been rolled out (shipping) for the past year. From the blog post: "This was made possible by the phased rollout of the GSP driver architecture over the past year, designed to make the transition easy for NVIDIA customers. https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/510.39.01/README/gsp.html https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/510.39.01/R..."
- jabl 4y agoAnd further, the GSP driver arch depends on the GSP controller available on Turing and later GPU's. Per wikipedia Turing was unveiled in 2018, so I guess design work was started several years prior to that unveiling. Not saying the decision to open source the driver was made back in 2015(?) or so, but the wheels were set in motion that eventually enabled the open source decision a long time ago.