The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns
The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns
Godspeed to him
And also: fuck you, Nvidia!
Poor burnt out guy
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties.
Throughout all the battles, particularly after the GTX 900 series and later has required signed firmware images for enabling any accelerated GPU support, he's now resigning from maintaining the driver.
This is a personal decision that I've been mulling over for a number of years now, and I feel that with GSP-RM greatly simplifying support of future HW, and the community being built around NVK, that things are in good hands and this is the right time for me to take some time away to explore other avenues.
I still have a personal system with an RTX 4070, which I've been using the nouveau GSP-RM code on for the past couple of weeks, so chances are I'll be poking my nose in every so often :)
It will be very interesting to see how this plays out considering Ben has been the number one contributor to the Nouveau kernel driver for years while at Red Hat.
Stay tuned to Phoronix to see how the open-source NVIDIA Linux graphics driver development evolves from this unexpected move.
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So what does this mean? He was the main contributer. Is Nouveau the only open source driver Nvidia cards can use on Linux?
The article answers your question
Read the article and was confused. Good thing there's a comment section to ask questions.
I believe so, yes. Other than that there's the official closed driver. Nvidia also "open-sourced" their driver for the RTX 20 series and up, which you could technically run, but I didn't hear much good from it.
Cool can't wait to never play starfield on arch endeavour os
You wouldn't play anything with Nouveau anyway
Well, the other thing Ben just posted before leaving is the initial support for GSP in nouveau (now continued by someone else in his team), which means we can finally start doing things like reclocking. With this and other cool stuff like nvk coming up, we finally have a way forward to have a good upstream experience.
You could buy a GPU made by a company that actually supports Linux and its users.
Next one will be, bought a 4080....