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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: 0, Troll

    Then release it without those parts and the community can fill in the gaps.

    Yeah right. That's why despite claiming the "community" would handle the heavy lifting that AMD has basically had to do all the work themselves on their open source driver?

    They get a more solid and reliable code base through the community eyes.

    Uh huh. In la la land, maybe.In reality the community misses tons of bugs that persist for years.