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It's good that there's at least some way to load the whole scmorgasboard of proprietary drivers/firmware now that doesnt constantly break, but this is still so far from great.

Nvidia picks & chooses what to implement. If they deign do work at all. And actually open-source Nouveau is wonderful, but wow, they have like 1/20th the chip-maker resources to read-from/work-with & 1/20th the developer headcount of Intel or AMD open-source driver development. Phoronix is posting RADV stories every other week with cutting edge industry folk making this or that innovation, & Noveau shows up like quarterly maybe.



The dearth of Nouveau interest is largely to do with the last 4 generations of cards being limited to the power saving clock speed. The new method of using the GSP in the open driver will remove that limitation and allow work done on Nouveau to actually be usable again.




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