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.