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NVIDIA Open-Sources Tegra K1 Graphics Support

Posted by Soulskill on from the increment-good-citizen-point-total dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NVIDIA's next-generation Tegra K1 ARM processor now has open-source support for its Kepler-based graphics. NVIDIA decided to submit a large queue of patches to the open-source, reverse-engineered Nouveau project for supporting their ARM Kepler graphics with the open-source driver. The patches are still experimental but this is the first time NVIDIA has contributed open-source code to Nouveau."

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  1. Re:Nvidia has NOTHING to lose at this stage by mrbluze · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you can't compete, make your documentation open-source in the hope this will boot-strap some extra business.

    Too little too late. For YEARS we have been screaming for nvidia drivers that aren't buggy, closed and unstable, to the point of writing Nuveau, an open source hack (remarkably good but still crippled). Rot in hell, NVIDIA - I have wasted enough money on your hardware.

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  2. Re:Nvidia has NOTHING to lose at this stage by Arker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "AMD also was all proprietary and their FOSS drivers are not as feature rich as the closed source."

    Their Free drivers may not be as 'feature rich' but they're a heck of a lot more stable and compatible than the blobware.

    I'm planning to buy new video hardware about the middle of the year and their chances of getting my money just went from 0 to... well to nonzero at least.

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