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DVI is a very large spec. It supports everything from pure VGA over it's analog pins as well as full fledged HDMI (its actually the other way around, HDMI is secretly just DVI). Fi…

the reason for the change to GPL in 5.9: https://lwn.net/Articles/827596/ it's a little frustrating that things which used to be kosher, like nvidia and nvidia_uvm linking are all …

RISC-V is inherently a customizable ISA though, whereas ARM implementations are very specific about what they require to be called an "ARM processor". This wouldnt change from this…

no. they're isolated for a reason, with the RISC-V processor being used as the controller to manage the behavior of the other parts of the chip. beyond just licensing ARM is expens…

you do realize that Nvidia is a major backer of RISC-V and already uses it on GPU's Turing and newer?

> GPUs are generally black boxes that you throw code at. umm... what? what does that even mean? lol I could kind of maybe begin understand your argument from the Graphics side, as …

title makes it justifiable for systems to both be hard to modify and difficult to use

I think so, but that issue was fixed w/in a few days

You also inherit an entire chain of trust over code you yourself didn't write nor did anyone actually validate. The issue with leftpad.js wasn't that it was stupid, it was that it …

this is laughably hyperbolic

this link in the article was cooler than the article itself: https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ (be sure to change the metric to inflation adjusted revenue)

there's a really interesting story around Lauda Air flight 004 where Boeing attempted to write it off as pilot error but Niki Lauda basically threatened to go fly one himself and r…

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-P...

yeah... I don't know what numbers you're looking at but that's not true in the general case. and this isn't firmware, it's microcode. firmware is already on the chip. microcode is …

because there's a lot of proprietary stuff in microcode that's used for accelerations. gfx drivers too. it's the reason the closed amd drivers are so much faster than the open mesa…

you talk about enabling signed firmware like it was done for a proprietary reason and not a massive security one. take a look at the fake Pascal gpu's on ebay where people are flas…

> Related to Nvidia's refusal to work with everyone else on Wayland support, no doubt. this is more complicated than I can really comment on, but from my understanding it was not a…

that was 1 doc out of many on http://download.nvidia.com/open-gpu-doc/ multiple docs have been updated in this past year

full disclosure that I work for nvidia, but not on drivers. many driver devs internally do actually contribute to nouveau as well. please don't make baseless claims simply because …

I'm sure this discussion will be civil

this should be the thread link

I like how you can ask it for the country code the power is from