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NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

Posted Sep 24, 2013 9:36 UTC (Tue) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032)
Parent article: NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

This is huge. Thanks are certainly due to whomever worked inside nvidia to effect this change. However, it must be pointed out that it has taken a *long* time for Radeon drivers to catch up featurewise based on the documentation alone.

So, while this will certainly be helpful to understand the workings of nvidia cards it might take a while before the nouveau driver catches up with nvidias (by all accounts excellent) proprietary offering.


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NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

Posted Sep 24, 2013 9:48 UTC (Tue) by Otus (guest, #67685) [Link]

> This is huge. Thanks are certainly due to whomever worked inside nvidia to
> effect this change. However, it must be pointed out that it has taken a
> *long* time for Radeon drivers to catch up featurewise based on the
> documentation alone.

And it's not even documentation alone: AMD has people working on the open drivers.

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