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From the article …
Asahi Lina posted to Bluesky today:
"For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.
I can’t share any more information at this time, so please don’t ask for more details. Thank you."
Most computers have a proprietary BIOS they have to talk to, though they do follow open standards.
I can’t find the link to show you, but I had thought I read before where some of the Nvidia ‘Secret Sauce’ code that would normally be in the driver software was in the firmware, and that the firmware was not open sourced.
So it would mean extra effort for the open source driver coders to try to get the same kind of performance. Basically Nvidia not open sourcing their proprietary code that gives them the/partial advantage in speed.
I think I remember reading about it in a web article, but like as I mentioned, I can’t remember which, or else I’d link it for you.
More than willing to admit I’m wrong about that interpretation too, but I remember it’s sticking out in my mind at the time of reading, as a “Sneaky Nvidia!” type of thought.
They’re getting better, but per the last Gamers Nexus video I watched, they are still falling behind nVidia/AMD’s, performance-wise. They’re good price wise.
It’s too bad that there’s still a proprietary binary layer that this driver will talk to. (I’m assuming right/wrong that it’s not open source, since it’s binary.)
I must’ve missed that from in the post. Do you have more information on that?
The article mentions the following …
the NOVA driver is intentionally limited to the RTX 20 “Turing” GPUs and newer where there is the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) with the firmware support to leverage for an easier driver-writing experience.
Also in the same article, there’s a link to another article that mentions it a little bit more …
“… serving as a hard- and firmware abstraction layer for GSP-based NVIDIA GPUs.”
I’ve also read something about it from other places, other articles as well …
The GSP is binary-only firmware loaded at run-time. The open-source kernel driver explicitly depends upon the GSP-supported graphics processors.
Basically, some/allot of the Nvidia “magic” is in their hardware/firmware, and that they are not open source.
Feel free to double check me on this though, that’s just my interpretation based on quickly reading some articles over the last six months or so.
The cost of moving everything over to AMD is high so it just takes time to get rid of old hardware as a best case scenario.
Totally understand. I hang on to my current GPU for as long as I can before switching to a new one (fiveish years), especially these days.
Having said that, if your goal is to move to Linux for gaming, best to go with a whole AMD setup if possible. Also a distro that updates often but is not bleeding edge. (For me, Fedora/KDE.)
Somewhere, somebody’s having a meltdown because Rust is spreading more and more in the kernel.
Probably more than just one somebody, based on the drama in these last few week’s. 😜
Good to see that NVIDIA is writing opensource drivers (or starting to). I guess it’s too much to ask to support old graphics cards, with NVIDIA mostly caring about money and a linux driver being an incentive to choose NVIDIA over AMD for some.
It’s too bad that there’s still a proprietary binary layer that this driver will talk to. (I’m assuming right/wrong that it’s not open source, since it’s binary.)
Best to support AMD if you game on Linux. Really wish Intel would step up their GPU game.
Was quick browsing for openwrt and found the banana pi r3.
One thing that surprised me when I was looking to upgrade my old router ith OpenWRT is if a firmware for your router supports ALL of the features/hardware of that router. In my case, Wifi support was not supported, so I had to disregard using OpenWRT as a choice.
So be sure to look carefully at the firmware that you find. I personally had just thought that if a firmware exists for your hardware that all of the major (but maybe not minor) features would be supported, and that is not always the case.
“Additionally, the $800 exemption for low-value goods has been removed.”
I didn’t even know such a thing existed, it’s not something reported on the news.
So every product will be hit with the tariff raising prices, and not just expensive products getting the tariffs. Yikes!
Why did you attach a link about Creative Commons and copyright laws?
Oh, no particular reason at all. Just seemed like a fun thing to do.
🤷😋😇
All kidding aside, that’s something of a loaded question.
Instead of a repeating myself, yet again, let me just point you to this topic…
https://lemmy.world/comment/9850401
Just click on the “View all Comments” link, to go to the top of the topic. It’s a full discussion.
If you want something more recent (like yesterday recent), then I’d point you to this topic…
https://lemmy.world/comment/10144269
Otherwise, you can look through the last threeish weeks of my posting comment history, and you’ll see the same subject come up multiple times, and be discussed.
Edit: Wow, seven down votes in just a few seconds from time of posting the comment. That must be a record.
Edit2: Hmmm, the responses seem strangly familiar. … 🤔 Seems like someone is trying really hard to push a certain agenda/perspective.
Did he give you a reason why?
Don’t think of it as them being unprofessional, think of it as them having a safety valve to relieve the pressure of some people wanting to leave Reddit for Lemmy or elsewhere, because of their bs.
Someday, when they’re confident enough that they have customer retention locked in, that methodology of bypassing will be removed.
A lot of people misunderstand economic systems by anthropomorphizing (it means to give them human characteristics) them, giving them the illusion of thought or feeling.
Just in case that was directed at me, versus part of your overall opining, I do not.
It’s an economic and social system, ‘Bartering 2.0’, and not a mechanical or otherwise thing.
Good opinion piece overall though.
One of the worst things about Capitalism is that many a time it’s cheaper to do the wrong thing, than the right thing. It promotes doing the wrong thing.
Well I’m glad it ended up being automated.
The lack of seat is why they fell off!
Not bad, not bad at all.
Ahh, ok, lol. Yeah, never played it. Thanks for sharing.
I was going to make a morbid joke about the driver having already fallen off and into the blades before you took the photo, but the fact that there’s no seat on that mower defeated that plan.
Yikes! So what do you do, regular visits to the vet, or just try to find them on your own?
Never thought coding drivers would be hazardous to your life.
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