Nouveau Patches Begin Lining Up For Linux 4.11 Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nouveau Patches Begin Lining Up For Linux 4.11 Kernel

Ben Skeggs at Red Hat has begun aligning the latest Nouveau DRM patches that in turn will be submitted to DRM-Next for the Linux 4.11 kernel merge window...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-Linux-4.11-Queue

[yoshi314]

why is it infeasible to extract the firmware from proprietary driver as an interim solution for peple with those more up to date 10xx nvidia cards?

[bemerk]

It is possible but the more recent drivers that include the pascal stuff changed the way the firmware is loaded and the developers had better things to do than hunt this down.

[yoshi314]

but if nvidia someday maybe releases the firmware, they will have to figure out the loading mechanism anyway, i guess. i doubt they will get help from company on that.

[andrei_me]

but if nvidia someday maybe releases the firmware, they will have to figure out the loading mechanism anyway, i guess. i doubt they will get help from company on that.

It is the few contributions that Nvidia developers do to nouveau, the patches that implements the loading mechanism