A Gift To The Nouveau Developers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Gift To The Nouveau Developers

Unlike the open-source AMD camp that now has deep roots going back to AMD thanks to their new open-source strategy with four full-time RadeonHD developers and even access to pre-production hardware, this is far different for the open-source NVIDIA side. While we've received information that NVIDIA may be plotting an open-source strategy, the Nouveau developers have yet to hear anything from NVIDIA nor do they expect any communication (as was stated in the Nouveau Companion 34)...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjMxMA

[yoshi314]

sweet. make sure it's in all the news, to make nvidia feel stupid, for not lifting a finger to help.

[DeepDayze]

If more people stepped in to donate hardware, coding expertise and cash then the Nouveau driver can take a quantum leap :)

What cards are they mainly looking for to develop on?

If the effort is out front and center, then Nvidia should feel but stupid ;)

[Michael]

What cards are they mainly looking for to develop on?


They are looking to support all of NVIDIA's GPUs from the old TNT2 era components up through the GeForce 8 and the future... Right now most of their work is on the older GPUs and then the GeForce 6/7 era and a bit of progress on the G80 front but not much.

[yoshi314]

no wonder, since newest nvidia cards are not in everybody's financial reach.

[Huenengrab]

I've got to contact my brother, if he still needs my old GeForce 2 Titanium. If not, I could spare it for a good cause.

[DeepDayze]

I have a spare TNT2 Mach64 in my parts box, as well as a GeForce4 MX440.

[marcheu]

Hello,

If you're interested in donating hardware, please email me the details about your location and hardware at marchesin (@@) icps.u-strasbg.fr. I can contact other devs and see who is interested in what device.

It's sometimes more expensive to ship hardware than to buy it so I'm making sure it's worth it :)