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Nouveau Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Achieves OpenCL Support

Posted by timothy on from the sentience-takes-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Nouveau driver project that's been writing an open-source NVIDIA graphics driver via reverse-engineering has moved forward in their support. The Nouveau driver now has OpenCL acceleration support to do GPGPU computing on the open-source community driver for several generations of GeForce GPUs."

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  1. Re:If only... by Desler · · Score: 3, Funny

    They can't. They license lots of code from companies who wouldn't want the source released. Also, they gain nothing by doing so. The neckbeard market isn't their primary customers.

  2. Re:If only... by X0563511 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The neckbeard market

    Thanks for that bigoted remark. Most of us are otherwise normal people, you know.

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