Nouveau NVIDIA Driver To Enter Linux 2.6.33 Kernel

Posted by kdawson on Friday December 11, 2009 @04:43AM from the no-excuses dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Not only is DRBD to be included in the Linux 2.6.33 kernel, but so is the Nouveau driver. The Nouveau driver is the free software driver that was created by clean-room reverse engineering NVIDIA's binary Linux driver. It has been in development for several years with 2D, 3D, and video support. The DRM component is set to enter the Linux 2.6.33 kernel as a staging driver. This is coming as a surprise move after yesterday Linus began ranting over Red Hat not upstreaming Nouveau and then Red Hat attributing this delay to microcode issues. The microcode issue is temporarily worked around by removing it from the driver itself and using the kernel's firmware loader to insert this potentially copyrighted work instead."

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Why not just use the Windows driver model.. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-11 04:47 · Score: 0, Flamebait

.. and directly load those superior and polished drivers?
Re:How does it compare with the other NVidia drive by LOLLinux · 2009-12-11 05:02 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Because of this, I'm going with ATI next time, I've heard they're way more Linux friendly now.
Have fun enjoying your extremely crappy drivers. Both the open source and the proprietary ATI drivers suck.