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Linus Torvalds Gives 'Thumbs Up' To Nvidia For Nouveau Contributions

Posted by Unknown on from the romulans-approaching-the-neutral-zone dept.

sfcrazy writes "Linus Torvalds has had some harsh words for Nvidia in the past. Their failure to work constructively with the Linux community is especially disappointing in light of the company's large presence in the Android market. That said, where there is life, there is change, and that is just what happened yesterday. Torvalds publicly gave a thumbs-up to Nvidia for contributing basic support for the recently released Nvidia K1 processor to Nouveau; something that was totally unexpected but received with open arms. 'Hey, this time I'm raising a thumb for nvidia. Good times,' said Linus."

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  1. Re:nVidia binary blob drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I think moderators jumped the gun here. It is a fair point to make that the commenter voted with his wallet.

  2. Re:Why do Free/Open Source gurus use Google+? by exomondo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Torvalds has said in the past something about that he doesn't want to associate with "free software" (or at least FSF) types because they're so "extreme" or such (can't find a link sorry).

    This probably isn't the link that you were referring to but in the discussion around GPLv3 he does mention that Linux has always been Open Source as opposed to Free Software and the FSF evangelizing Linux as a free software project is not something he advocates.

  3. Re:Linus gets results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why, exactly?

    - AMD's open driver is in *awesome* shape in latest 3.13, 3.12 brought the biggest improvements.
    - AMD has been invested millions in open projects like Gallium3D, Mesa, etc to improve their drivers.
    - AMD has been released specs for their hardware since 2006.

  4. Re:Why do Free/Open Source gurus use Google+? by Tough+Love · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe if those FSF types had spent more time innovating and creating a product people want then people might actually use Free Software,

    *cough* *cough* Gcc, Libc, etc etc *cough* *cough*

    --
    When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
  5. Collaboration strictly limited to Tegra K1+ by mupuf · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hey, I'm a Nouveau developer and I had a chance to discuss with an nvidia engineer @ FOSDEM. This collaboration is strictly limited to Tegra and on the kernel side (at least for the moment).

    There is some overlap with the desktop cards (mostly Kepler family) which will allow us to benefit of this collaboration in more than the SoC world. This is however very interesting and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it will pan out!