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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:Not quite by diego.viola · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was saying that there are many reasons to use Nouveau, one of them is that nouveau supports KMS and Wayland while the nvidia blob DOES NOT.

    How about improving your reading comprehension? And what is exactly not working for you with nouveau? How about doing some bug reporting?