Re: linux kernel and nvidia - never ending story
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 10:46:35AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 8. März 2022, 00:25:54 CET schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> > No, you are completzely wrong! It is not Nvidia to blam,e when COMPILING
> > fails! [...]
>
> No, of course not. It's you to blame, for upgrading your system.
>
> Just stay with your old kernel, header files and toolchain and all will
> be well.
>
> (Sorry for the irony, but see, if NVIDIA's sources reference parts of
> the kernel headers which aren't guaranteed to stay stable, well...)
>
There is also the problem that NVidia has no incentive to keep purchasers
of their hardware happy over the long term: the people who buy low-end
cards are not worth the profit margin dip caused by supporting them;
the people who buy high-end cards will continue to buy whatever the
magazines say are fastest this season, and businesses mostly run Windows.
Now, could NVidia have chosen another path? Certainly. There are
at least two more existence proofs: Intel decided that they
would open-source their drivers and not even pretend to be
competitive: for the last decade, nobody has purchased Intel
graphics cards. People buy Intel CPUs and get a just-good-enough
GPU embedded.
And over at AMD, they open-sourced their graphics drivers to
call functions in a big firmware blob, so the drivers need
minimal work each year.
I don't blame Hans for picking the wrong vendor. I did that too
for a while. In that situation, talking to the Nouveau people is
probably the best bet, other than buying a new graphics card
from someone else -- and that's expensive this year.
-dsr-
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