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    That Was Fast: GM20x Maxwell Support Already Hitting Mesa

    Phoronix: That Was Fast: GM20x Maxwell Support Already Hitting Mesa

    The Nouveau development crew continues to amaze with their accomplishments with what they can achieve when not being blocked by signed firmware issues or other major road-blockers...

    That Was Fast: GM20x Maxwell Support Already Hitting Mesa - Phoronix
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GM20x-First-Mesa-Patches
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    The hype is real.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by magika View Post
      The hype is real.
      Ahah, quite true.
      Also can't understand how "fast" and "two years" words can match

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      • #4
        Originally posted by blackshard View Post

        Ahah, quite true.
        Also can't understand how "fast" and "two years" words can match
        Not sure if being sarcastic or not but anyway...

        It took the FOSS less than a day to have 3D apps running on this hardware after waiting 2 years for nVidia to release the needed signed firmware.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by mdias View Post

          Not sure if being sarcastic or not but anyway...

          It took the FOSS less than a day to have 3D apps running on this hardware after waiting 2 years for nVidia to release the needed signed firmware.

          I'm guessing the dev's already head an interim solution they were using to develop these patches, perhaps early access to the images under NDA

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          • #6
            Originally posted by FireBurn View Post
            I'm guessing the dev's already head an interim solution they were using to develop these patches, perhaps early access to the images under NDA
            The developer had an interim solution, yes. But he had no time to work on this that much before the release. AFAIK, no-one got an early release under NDA.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by FireBurn View Post


              I'm guessing the dev's already head an interim solution they were using to develop these patches, perhaps early access to the images under NDA
              It looks like the primary changes necessary were just updating 2 xml files with various definitions in them that look like they're auto-generated from a reverse-engineering tool that runs against the proprietary drivers.

              So I assume they've had that stuff around for a while, and just weren't able to test it very well until the firmware got released.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by M?P?F View Post

                The developer had an interim solution, yes. But he had no time to work on this that much before the release. AFAIK, no-one got an early release under NDA.

                Thanks for letting us know

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