in fairness that is a sound response - after all its a business BTW did I say thanks for the hardware Bumblebee Devs put in!
I know precisious little about how things work but would love to get involved somehow. I use Bumblebee for running Graphics apps such as Blender and because later this year I start learning C++ & openGL. I have started the C++ bit already so I know very basic stuff. Is there anyway in which I can get involved? Jason On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Eric Appleman <erapple...@gmail.com> wrote: > Supporting Linux is important to NVIDIA, and we understand that there > are people who are as passionate about Linux as an open source platform > as we are passionate about delivering an awesome GPU experience. > > Recently, there have been some questions raised about our lack of > support for our Optimus notebook technology. When we launched our > Optimus notebook technology, it was with support for Windows 7 only. The > open source community rallied to work around this with support from the > Bumblebee Open Source Project http://bumblebee-project.org/. And as a > result, we've recently made Installer and readme changes in our R295 > drivers that were designed to make interaction with Bumblebee easier. > > While we understand that some people would prefer us to provide detailed > documentation on all of our GPU internals, or be more active in Linux > kernel community development discussions, we have made a decision to > support Linux on our GPUs by leveraging NVIDIA common code, rather than > the Linux common infrastructure. While this may not please everyone, it > does allow us to provide the most consistent GPU experience to our > customers, regardless of platform or operating system. > > As a result: > > 1) Linux end users benefit from same-day support for new GPUs , OpenGL > version and extension parity between NVIDIA Windows and NVIDIA Linux > support, and OpenGL performance parity between NVIDIA Windows and NVIDIA > Linux. > > 2) We support a wide variety of GPUs on Linux, including our latest > GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla-class GPUs, for both desktop and notebook > platforms. Our drivers for these platforms are updated regularly, with > seven updates released so far this year for Linux alone. The latest > Linux drivers can be downloaded from www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html. > > 3) We are a very active participant in the ARM Linux kernel. For the > latest 3.4 ARM kernel – the next-gen kernel to be used on future Linux, > Android, and Chrome distributions – NVIDIA ranks second in terms of > total lines changed and fourth in terms of number of changesets for all > employers or organizations. > > At the end of the day, providing a consistent GPU experience across > multiple platforms for all of our customers continues to be one of our > key goals. > > Source: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=184564 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > Post to : hybrid-graphics-linux@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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