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Nvida's latest mark of their newly discovered open-source kindness is beginning to provide open-source hardware reference headers for their latest GK20A/GM20B Tegra GPUs while they are working to also provide hardware header files on their older GPUs. These programming header files in turn will help the development of the open-source Nouveau video driver as up to this point they have had to do much of the development via reverse-engineering.
In order to drive Nouveau as NVIDIA's primary development environment for Tegra, they are looking at adding "official" hardware reference headers to Nouveau. Ken explained, " The headers are derived from the information we use internally. I have arranged the definitions such that the similarities and differences between GPUs is made explicit. I am happy to explain the rationale for any design choices and since I wrote the generator I am able to tweak them in almost any way the community prefers."
So far he has been cleared to provide the programming headers for the GK20A and GM20B. For those concerned this is just an item for driving up future Tegra sales, Ken added, "over the long-term I'm confident any information we need to fill-in functionality >= NV50/G80 will be made public eventually. We just need to go through the internal steps necessary to make that happen."
Perhaps most interesting is that moving forward they would like to use the Nouveau kernel driver code-base as the primary development environment for new hardware. In 2012 Torvalds sent a public "fuck you!" to Nvidia. Also, don't forget Intel and AMD offerings.
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(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:48PM
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:58PM
> Did they show it was actually solvable?
Since it sounds like an interview rigged up by an HR type and not a coding type, I'd bet that all they could possibly show is the answer they got off the Internet.
(Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 26 2015, @12:13AM
Google evetually figured out that knowing what to do if you were shrunk to the size of a nickel then dropped into a blender did not predict your on the job success.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:16PM
> I like reading puzzles too hard for me to solve. What was the problem? Did they show it was actually solvable?
Haven't you figured it out yet? MDC is a pathological liar. His life is full of adventure and variety -- He taught at caltech, worked at cern, dated gabe newells sister and a thousand other things that I would remember if I cared enough to catalog his crazy -- all the while having time to constantly to post about all his amazing experiences on webforums. When does the credulity run out?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:52PM
...but he was great in "Some mothers do 'ave 'em"... :)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 26 2015, @12:10AM
"Does your husband/mother know that you're writing to me?". i mean likenine year old girls would offer their maidenhead to me.
"Will you sing at my daughters edding"
"I dont know how to sing but i play improvisational piano."
"Thats ok - come sing anyway."
When Michael Patrick Dumble-Smythe retired he moved into my aunt's neighborhood so british people would not know where to find him.
He is the specific reason i use my full name online. really i just prefer mike.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 26 2015, @12:16AM
I regard it as bad form to tell anyone what my job interview questions are, even when they are totally asinine.
While it wasnt chess consider a chess problem. what move is required so your opponent cannot checkmate you?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @03:37AM
Toppling your king, the best way to win is not to play
(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Friday June 26 2015, @03:37PM
While it wasnt chess consider a chess problem. what move is required so your opponent cannot checkmate you?
That's easy. The only way to win is not to play.