On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 12:24 -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:32:40PM -0700: > [snip] > > NVIDIA cards work well on Linux. They are fully programmable (down to > > the machine code level) and very fast. > > Do they come with documentation for the interface?
Lots and lots of stuff on the NVIDIA developers site. Lots and lots of tools too (compilers, assemblers, test suites, examples, source, etc.) > > You get access to driver source? Not the proprietary stuff for the same reasons they don't release it all as Open Source (licensing, IP, stiff competition, etc.). There was a time I needed a newer set of compilers for a game engine I was working on. The released version would not work for me (IIRC, there was some bug in it). I was given access to the latest CVS version which I was asked to try and provide feedback on. It worked right away and solved my problem. > > Give my compilable, readable, and textual source code, and I'm happy. Well, more than once I had problems getting functions to work in Linux that were supported by my NVIDIA based card (e.g. - Fast Writes, SBA, AGP 4x). I was able to get it working by modifying the source code supplied with the NVIDIA driver. That made me happy until they (kernel maintainers and NVIDIA) updated the software (kernel and driver) to support everything I needed. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
