Nouveau's NIR Support Inches Closer To TGSI Quality

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nouveau's NIR Support Inches Closer To TGSI Quality

Longtime Nouveau contributor Karol Herbst joined Red Hat at the end of last year where his current task is on NIR intermediate representation support for Nouveau as part of bringing SPIR-V compute support to this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-NIR-V5

[eydee]

I wonder with what hardware does Red Hat want to use compute with on Nouveau. I'm sure it needs proper power management, compute performance should be minimal at base clock speed.

[calc]

Would be nice if they could get power management working properly. Fedora 27 locks up on boot if you don't use nouveau.runpm=0.

[pal666]

Fedora 27 locks up on boot if you don't use nouveau.runpm=0.

article talks about development of mesa by mesa developer. he can't fix kernel lock ups (though redhat employs kernel nouveau devs too)