NVIDIA to publish documentation to help improve Nouveau

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NVIDIA announced that it will begin to publish documents that help improve New, free controller for the company's graphics cards.

«NVIDIA will release documentation public on certain aspects of our GPUs with the intention of addressing certain areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau. We intend to provide more documentation over time, as well as orientation in additional areas that are within our means, "said Andy Ritger on the Nouveau developers' mailing lists.

And since words are not enough, he proceeded to post the first document.

“I suspect that much of the information in that document will not be anything new to the community, although it will be useful to confirm their understanding […] Some of us who work in the owner controller for Linux We will pay attention to the list and try to help when we can. If there are specific areas of documentation that are most helpful to you, that feedback will help NVIDIA prioritize our efforts, "Ritger added in his message.

The response of the community de developers It has been quite positive, although Andy Ritger was right: they already knew most of the information in the document. However, it is a good start.

Despite everything, his own Linus Torvalds remains cautious, if quite optimistic, and hopes that this will be a real change in the way that NVIDIA views Linux. "If NVIDIA really goes ahead and opens up more, that will certainly be great […] I really hope I can apologize one day for raising my finger," the kernel creator assured the guys at Ars Technica.

More information - More about NVIDIA at Ubunlog, Linus: "We know what we do, you don't"
Source - Mailing lists, Ars Technica


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