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NVIDIA Open-Sources 3D Driver For Tegra SoCs

Posted by samzenpus on from the set-it-free dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux developers are now working on open-source 3D support for NVIDIA's Tegra in cooperation with NVIDIA and months after the company published open-source 2D driver code. There are early patches for the Linux kernel along with a Gallium3D driver. The Tegra Gallium3D driver isn't too far along yet but is enough to run Wayland with Weston."

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  1. AMD news yesterday, NVidia today, that's great! by girlinatrainingbra · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So phoronix had the news yesterday about an open-source wrapper to AMD's concession to open-source "AMD Releases UVD Engine Source Code" for the kernel-level wrapper code, and today, NVidia open sources the 3-d driver for Tegra. That's progress. I use the Nvidia binary blob on my debian distro hardware, and the Nvidia blob with the knoppix live-boot system, as Nouveau does not work well enough on my hardware. I hope this will help Nouveau a lot.

    1. Re:AMD news yesterday, NVidia today, that's great! by citizenr · · Score: 3, Interesting

      How is a driver for Tegra (not even a unified shader architecture, something similar to Riva TNT2) going to help your desktop driver?

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