The Nouveau Driver Is Moving Along Slowly But Surely

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Nouveau Driver Is Moving Along Slowly But Surely

The Nouveau Companion, the newsletter by the Nouveau driver developers about the progress on their NVIDIA reverse-engineering challenge for creating an open-source NVIDIA Linux driver, has its first new issue in nearly two years...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTE1MA

[MùPùF]

... but it shouldn't really matter anyway.

Next time, I'll put a red sign saying "DO NOT TALK ABOUT THIS YET".

If you are interested in knowing when the final version comes out, please monitor nouveau's mailing list.

[MùPùF]

Phoronix: The Nouveau Driver Is Moving Along Slowly But Surely

The code to this micro-controller compiler for NVIDIA's newest GPUs will be published soon.

Just wanted to add, "Soon" = will take months. Sorry about that.

[NSLW]

It might be sinful to add that casual nvidia card owner can help in progress by testing his card. For more info look at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TestersWanted

[disi]

Puh
I guess when I get my new laptop (460m), I'll pop into your IRC channel and you can tell me what to do...
This is like Chinese to me:
https://github.com/pathscale/pscnv/wiki/TestingTimings

More important, you talk about vbios updates... is there something I could break on the card doing this stuff?