On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <[email protected]> wrote: > source: > http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2014&Itemid=47 > > NVIDIA's open-source Linux efforts as it concerns their GPU support have > historically been minimal. The xf86-video-nv driver has been around that > provides very basic 2D acceleration and a crippled set of features besides > that (no proper RandR 1.2/1.3, KMS, power management, etc) while the code > has also been obfuscated to try to protect their intellectual property. > However, NVIDIA has decided to deprecate this open-source driver of theirs. > No, NVIDIA is not working on a new driver. No, NVIDIA is not going to > support the Nouveau project. Instead, NVIDIA now just recommends its users > use the X.Org VESA driver to get to NVIDIA.com when installing Linux so they > can install their proprietary driver. > > This xf86-video-nv announcement is coming as the GeForce 400 "Fermi" > graphics cards launch. NVIDIA will not be providing open-source support for > Fermi or any future NVIDIA products. NVIDIA will continue barely supporting > xf86-video-nv only as it concerns existing GPUs and functionality and what > they see "within reason" future versions of the X.Org Server. NVIDIA will > also not support DisplayPort on any GPU with the open-source NVIDIA driver.
I think the title is very misleading. It misses the fact that NVIDIA will continue providing their proprietary drivers for Linux. To shed some more light, from the original article [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_kills_nv&num=1] "NVIDIA will continue supporting their high-performance, feature-rich proprietary Unix driver on Linux / FreeBSD / OpenSolaris systems, but they are kissing goodbye to xf86-video-nv. This is not a bad thing per se as the Nouveau driver is certainly a superior solution, but it is unfortunate that NVIDIA will not be supporting the Nouveau development, releasing open-source documentation, or providing other open-source support like their competitors at ATI/AMD and Intel have done and continue to do in supporting X.Org. In fact, NVIDIA is now less open-source friendly with their deprecation of xf86-video-nv support. It was inevitable that NVIDIA would drop xf86-video-nv once the Nouveau driver took off, but their decision to recommend the VESA driver over even mentioning Nouveau is a pity and it's a shame they are not announcing any support of this community free software driver." SB -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm To unsubscribe from this group, send email to iitdlug+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
