Bickering Continues About NVIDIA Using DMA-BUF

[dm-xterm]

YOU bought an Optimus laptop.
YOU are an asshole.

I just made an account because his comment was pointless, I was hoping I wouldn't be the only one to notice his problems were all his fault... "lets buy an expensive piece of equipment without confirming everything will work how I want, then blame someone else"...

[crazycheese]

The trouble of integrating of or integrating into 3rd party software is inevitable attribute of any closed source (proprietary) license.

I don't see it as a problem of GPL. The license just does what it was designed to do - to protect freedom. It prevents the hostile takeover.


And anyone claiming how "BSD would be better" have definitely zero clue. MacOSX is a living proof of your stupidity.

Had Linux been BSD licensed, Nvidia would have forked, mixed it into own drivers and release it as Nvidia OS, under proprietary license.


Nvidia does do very good drivers. But current situation is just their own fault in choosing wrong (proprietary) license.

[LLStarks]

I just made an account because his comment was pointless, I was hoping I wouldn't be the only one to notice his problems were all his fault... "lets buy an expensive piece of equipment without confirming everything will work how I want, then blame someone else"...

You need to shut up. NOW.

I specifically bought an Optimus laptop to research approaches to solving Optimus on Linux. Why else did I spend so much time on the Bumblebee and Ubuntu Hybrid Graphics team?

I also had expectations that PRIME and dma-buf would be adequate. The situation is arguably worse today since Nvidia is locked out of dma-buf and are making even their high-end GTX chips Optimus-only.

[asdx]

YOU bought an Optimus laptop.
YOU are an asshole.

Haha, I couldn't have said it better.

whitecat is the man.

Fuck nvidia and all the morons who support them.

Alan Cox, Linus Torvalds and whitecat are the man.

[asdx]

A question - is it possible to make this available via syscalls?

No, open source or provide specs or GTFO.

[Rigaldo]

You really don't get it. Want to use open source? Respect the fscking license at least! No need to call others names. Believe it or not but linux still would be doing well even if nvidia ceased to exist tomorrow.

Btw nvidia are already violating linux kernel license, no matter if this symbols are changed or not. And they should really let their lawyers handle this and not the devs.

Personally I'd only call names people calling others names.
I respect all Linux developers of course, but I believe they could have had a better stance(more diplomatic). Who am I to know though. But mostly some anti-anything people could have a better stance.
Yes, Linux wouldn't change much if NVIDIA ceased to exist, wouldn't say the same about their drivers ceasing to exist though ..

**Haha, "fscking" .. fsck .. lol Took me a moment to get it.

Yeah, I can see how a bigger amount of Linux users using NVidia blobs will make NVidia to go open.

Or to be more general: More people not caring about open source and using proprietary software will do more good to open source than actually having and keeping things open?

So you take it as a given that they won't care about open source. Not so unlikely, not all of them at least, and it would also mean more people who DO care. Well, making parts of the driver open could potentially have many benefits(instant support for new X.org, kernels, out of the box driver, etc). Maybe they'd care about that. Or MAYBE about the ones creating the thing with this larger user base?
Or maybe they should drop their driver altogether, like some people here seem to suggest. That'd help nouveau too, now wouldn't it?

[crazycheese]

You need to shut up. NOW.

I specifically bought an Optimus laptop to research approaches to solving Optimus on Linux. Why else did I spend so much time on the Bumblebee and Ubuntu Hybrid Graphics team?

I also had expectations that PRIME and dma-buf would be adequate. The situation is arguably worse today since Nvidia is locked out of dma-buf and are making even their high-end GTX chips Optimus-only.

If you bought it to research approaches.... if did your research, would the result be opensource or closed source?

Because optimus does not exist in first place due to nvidia being closed source; and not releasing anything... its only them who are capable, yet they refused.

GPL is designed to prevent exactly this, to prevent proprietary monopoly.

And if they want to integrate anything tightly with open kernel, they should keep all relevant parts open as well. The kernel is protected by the license against abuse.

[christian_frank]

No, open source or provide specs or GTFO.

you are such a closed minded zealot ! amd gives specs , how well does the opensource driver work compared to the amd or nvidia blob ? do you really think specs would change the situation for noveau that mutch ?even with specs it would take years to be on par with the blob !

users simply need the blob for everything more than basic 2d usage . And nobody buys an optimus laptops for that purpose ! alan cox move is a hit in the face for linux users . that's a fact .

[dm-xterm]

You need to shut up. NOW.

I specifically bought an Optimus laptop to research approaches to solving Optimus on Linux. Why else did I spend so much time on the Bumblebee and Ubuntu Hybrid Graphics team?

I also had expectations that PRIME and dma-buf would be adequate. The situation is arguably worse today since Nvidia is locked out of dma-buf and are making even their high-end GTX chips Optimus-only.

So what you are saying is you knew what you were getting into before hand, and yet still whine about it... thats even worse... "I knew for a fact about it before hand, but I still have a right to whine about it not working..."

[alexThunder]

So you take it as a given that they won't care about open source. Not so unlikely, not all of them at least, and it would also mean more people who DO care. Well, making parts of the driver open could potentially have many benefits(instant support for new X.org, kernels, out of the box driver, etc). Maybe they'd care about that. Or MAYBE about the ones creating the thing with this larger user base?
Or maybe they should drop their driver altogether, like some people here seem to suggest. That'd help nouveau too, now wouldn't it?

Yeah and MAYBE the pixie of open source will become the new CEO of NVidia and open up everything they have.

The only thing, which would improve, when we get more of these people is the number of entries in the bugtrackers.