[PPT] - Nouveau The overdue Status update Karol Herbst Karol Herbst PowerPoint Presentation

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Nouveau

The overdue Status update Karol Herbst

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Goal

Reliable Open-Source driver for Nvidia GPUs

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Updates - Kernel

Modesetting support for Turing in 5.1 Atomic modesetting support Reverse Prime improvements

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Updates - NIR

added in mesa 19.1 required for OpenCL, Vulkan and GL 4.6 support can be tested with NV 50_PROG_USE_NIR = 1

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Updates - OpenCL

added in mesa 19.3 for Fermi and newer can be enabled with NOUVEAU_ENABLE_CL = 1 still a lot to do fixing OpenCL CTS fails

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Updates - "Staffing"

No big change in paid developers Intern at RH working on a Nouveau Shader cache

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Updates - community members

Big thanks to Ilia for his ongoing contributions! No new "core" developers Most old ones moved to other projects No big contributions from others sadface

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Updates - Nvidia-

Getting firmware for acceleration needs time No firmware for Power Management yet

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Updates - Nvidia+

It’s improving Some published documentation: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-doc tagr contributes Tegra code Random patches from others as well

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Work in progress

Pass Khronos CTS for exposing OpenGL 4.4+ Improving Performance Building a CI system OpenCL support OpenGL on Volta and Turing

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Important tasks - kernel

Fixing runpm Device hot unplugging (eGPU)

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Important tasks - userspace

Fixing multithreading Vulkan driver Context recovery Debugging features

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How to help

Own hardware with bugs running Nouveau and fix those Be interested and motivated GSoC/EVoC (for students)

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How to help - Good entry level tasks

Compiler opts Making use of GPU GPIOs Fixing Fan controlling (we have the docs for that)

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Links

IRC Channel on freenode: #nouveau Mailing list: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau Trello Board: https://trello.com/b/ZudRDiTL/nouveau GSoC/EVoC project ideas: https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/

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