2015-05-20 17:00 GMT-06:00 Ilia Mirkin <[email protected]>: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Alex Henrie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Greetings Nouveau developers, >> >> It's been a while since I've sent any hardware your way. I feel that >> Nouveau is one of the most important pieces of software holding Linux >> back, > > That's certainly a funny way of putting it. If that were true, I'd > imagine that there would be tons of people looking to contribute to > the project. But that doesn't seem to be the present reality.
My dream is to be able to plug a live Linux flash drive into any desktop computer and play games without graphics artifacts, special configuration, or bad performance. It is getting better, but I think we have a long ways to go, especially since we're moving towards Wayland and the proprietary Nvidia drivers don't work at all there. > There are plenty of areas where nouveau is lacking... are there any in > particular that you think need special attention? Note that things > like "reclocking" are highly unlikely to happen without a considerable > source of funds, as it would require a fairly long-term effort from a > highly skilled developer. [And it's all moot once you get to Maxwell, > since we're locked out of touching any of that stuff by signed code. > With some luck NVIDIA will make firmware available for desktop GPUs, > but I'm not holding my breath.] Any improvement would move us closer to the above-stated dream. >> and I'm happy to support you. If you send me a very specific >> list of cards, boards, etc. that you want or need, I'll see what I can >> do. > > Unfortunately the most precious resource is human time, not hardware. > If you're hoping to contribute to nouveau's improvement (and aren't > looking to do so directly by making code contributions), your time is > probably best spent drumming up developer interest in contributing. OK. I just thought I'd offer. I agree with you that human developer time is a far more precious resource, but unfortunately I don't have much to offer in the way of actual code. So I'll get out of your hair; good luck! -Alex _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
