I believe so, yes. Other than that there’s the official closed driver. Nvidia also “open-sourced” their driver for the RTX 20 series and up, which you could technically run, but I didn’t hear much good from it.
And the parts that are open source are basically just a code dump. No commit history, so no comments explaining things in commits. That’s worse than some source code leaks.
NVIDIA creating an open source driver (well, throwing code over the wall once in a while is still open source I guess) does not mean there’s an upstream driver. The kernel maintainers have already noted that it’s definitely not in any shape to be merged upstream (and would need close to a full rewrite)
“He’s resigning because he thinks the community should focus on that driver instead now” is completely false and I have no idea how you even got to that conclusion. Literally on the same day he posted this email, he also posted initial GSP support which specifically gives us a bright future in nouveau, as it means we can now do funky stuff like reclocking (and which will be further developed by some other people in his team at RH).
So what does this mean? He was the main contributer. Is Nouveau the only open source driver Nvidia cards can use on Linux?
I believe so, yes. Other than that there’s the official closed driver. Nvidia also “open-sourced” their driver for the RTX 20 series and up, which you could technically run, but I didn’t hear much good from it.
I’ve heard that it’s not fully open source. Some components of it are still closed source.
And the parts that are open source are basically just a code dump. No commit history, so no comments explaining things in commits. That’s worse than some source code leaks.
Times like these make me really miss Omega Drivers. :(
Why go for third party drivers if you can go for AMD?
Because AMD GPUs don’t have proper ray tracing support. Hell, they can’t even do frame generation.
Believe me, I’d love nothing more than to own an all-AMD PC, but until their GPUs are as good as their CPUs, I’m stuck with a hybrid machine.
The article answers your question
Read the article and was confused. Good thing there’s a comment section to ask questions.
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So there’s quite a few errors here:
That clears up my specific confusion perfectly! Thanks!
33 people who upvoted this (as of writing) now have misinformation in their heads, which they’ll probably spread around the internet thanks to you.
Me when I lie on the internet: