NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @05:09AM from the returning-to-par dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Nouveau driver developers working on open-source support for the GeForce 900 Maxwell graphics cards have found this new generation to be "very open-source unfriendly" and restricting. NVIDIA began requiring signed firmware images, which they have yet to provide to Nouveau developers, contrary to their earlier statements. The open-source developers have also found their firmware signing to go beyond just simple security precautions. For now the open-source NVIDIA driver can only enable displays with the GTX 900 series without any hardware acceleration.

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Re:Valve needs to use their clout by Anonymous Coward · 2015-04-15 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Stop making sense and be outraged, dammit!
Re:Valve needs to use their clout by Jartan · 2015-04-15 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny

"or we'll release Half Life 3 as AMD only and spam AMD all over Steam"
That exactly.
Re:nvidia/ATI should keep their new stuff propriet by fibonacci8 · 2015-04-15 14:33 · Score: 3, Funny

Intel continued to sell these to Atom users years after they should have been killed.
Killing the Atom users seems relatively merciful rather than continually being sold Intel video cards...

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