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I am skeptical that we will ever see that.
by mulderc 4y ago
I am skeptical that we will ever see that.
- fragmede 4y agogiven that thunderbolt 3 is basically PCI, the only far fetched part would be having to write a 3rd party driver for the card. Given the high end businesses that exist in this world to work with video on the (eg Davinci on the iPad which was recently on the front page), combined with a demand for absolute highest end GPU performance, I think there's a business case for it. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to be open source though.
- smoldesu 4y agoConsidering how little commercial support there is for basic GPU functionality on regular Linux, it's wishful thinking to expect a mysterious stranger to write this code for you. Especially for black-box hardware.
- anthk 4y agoeGPU-s work on Linux. https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-12-05-nixos-egpu.html https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-12-05-nixos-egpu.html
- smoldesu 4y agoI don't think this is generic eGPU support. AFAIK, Nvidia's render offloading is baked into their driver. Not sure if it has an AMD/Intel equivalent.
- fragmede 4y agoThe mysterious strangers I have in mind are Blackmagic Design, who write Davinci Resolve, for both Mac and Linux, and have the economic incentive to. They made $576 million in revenue last year so it's not that far fetched.
- kcb 4y agoAMD gpu drivers are open source and already work on multiple platforms thanks to being part of the kernel and Mesa.
- fragmede 4y agoThe Linux kernel, yes. I was thinking of Darwin when I wrote that