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| Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, June 19 2012 @ 04:50 PM EDT |
No source, no documentation.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 19 2012 @ 05:05 PM EDT |
NVidia's days as a dedicated graphics chip maker are numbered, and they know it.
The future of the mass market GPU is as an integrated function in the CPU. Intel
has their own graphics, AMD bought ATI, and VIA is too small to matter. The high
end "gamer PC" market will be too small on its own to support GPU
development. NVidia will be squeezed out of the PC market.
Their new strategy is to become a major ARM chip supplier, where they integrate
their GPU into a CPU they license from ARM. In light of this, PC graphics chips
are a legacy product which NVidia doesn't want to waste time on.
NVidia has been up-streaming their Tegra ARM code to the Linux kernal. The big
question though is whether that will include the GPU portion. I suspect it
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 19 2012 @ 05:06 PM EDT |
That is, it's not open source --> can't tinker with it. Nvidia doesn't want
tinkerers, especially not from ATI. Maybe they don't want patent trolls, either
-- hard to sue for a patent when you don't have the source code.
They probably have a few legs up on ATI they really don't want to share.
I'm looking for a reply from Linus, along the following lines:
1) We reverse-engineered your drivers, here's some source!
2) We sandboxed your driver, and every other driver, and lots of other things,
so we can handle closed source in GENERAL (This is what I want to work on, but
don't know where to get funding)(Christenson)
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