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A coworker of mine formerly worked on Nvidia's proprietary drivers. They remarked at just how wrong the Nouveau driver was about certain things, including the f
by inamberclad 3y ago
A coworker of mine formerly worked on Nvidia's proprietary drivers. They remarked at just how wrong the Nouveau driver was about certain things, including the functionality and reasons for certain registers.
- kelnos 3y agoAround a decade ago, I was introduced to a couple people who it turned out worked at nvidia. After a bunch of conversation, nouveau came up; they were intensely negative about it, mocking it and its developers, criticizing its existence, even, and declaring it would never amount to anything. (Meanwhile, I was running it on a computer at home and it was significantly more stable than the nvidia proprietary driver at the time, and performed well enough for my use.) I wish I'd had more conversational courage at the time to "stand up" for nouveau with them; it was super rude to shit on someone else's hard work, especially when the reason why they had to do that hard work was because nvidia was a bunch of jerks with a shitty FOSS policy.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoThat's completely fucked up and has soured my opinion of nvidia and the people involved with it more than anything they've ever officially done as a company.
- throwaway48476 3y agoYeah look at those idiots getting 80% of the way there with no support. Clearly incompetent.
- westhanover 3y ago[dead]
- bogantech 3y agoGiven that there's no official documentation and they can only learn through reverse engineering this is not at all surprising. Presumably RedHat are in the same boat.