Hacker News with Generative AI: Graphics Drivers

Karol Herbst Steps Down as Nouveau Maintainer Due to Linux's Toxic Environment (phoronix.com)
Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver. But today he announced he's resigning as a Nouveau driver maintainer due to differences with the upstream Linux kernel developer community.

Linux, Open Source, Graphics Drivers, Software Development, Community

63 points by evujumenuk 6 days ago | 46 comments

Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks to Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long (phoronix.com)
Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience.

Linux, Operating Systems, Fedora, Graphics Drivers, Performance

9 points by LinuxBender 35 days ago | 0 comments

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 (github.com/PluMGMK)
This is a rewrite of the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, designed to support ALL available 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit graphic modes on any system providing the VESA BIOS Extensions (hence the VBE in the name). It is based on the Video 7 SVGA driver included in the Win16 Driver Development Kit, with most of the hardware-specific code gutted out, and with support added for multi-byte pixels.

Windows 3.1, Programming, Open Source, Legacy Software, Graphics Drivers

50 points by rcarmo 46 days ago | 7 comments

NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia hardware, now supports Vulkan 1.4 (freedesktop.org)
Closes: #10770 (closed)

Open Source, Vulkan, Nvidia, Graphics Drivers

12 points by mfilion 81 days ago | 1 comments

Latest graphics driver for your Surface devices powered by Snapdragon X Elite (qualcomm.com)

Graphics Drivers, Microsoft Surface, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Mobile Devices

19 points by xgdgsc 93 days ago | 20 comments

An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers (lwn.net)
The kernel graphics driver for the Apple M1 and M2 GPUs is, rather famously, written in Rust, but it has achieved conformance with various graphics standards, which is also noteworthy.

Graphics Drivers, Apple Hardware, Open Source

625 points by MrBuddyCasino 113 days ago | 266 comments

Arm Exploring io_uring for Graphics Drivers (phoronix.com)
The IO_uring asynchronous I/O API for Linux is quite novel and has proven performance benefits.

Linux, Graphics Drivers, Asynchronous I/O

12 points by mfiguiere 133 days ago | 0 comments

Linux 6.12 Lands QR Code for DRM Panic Messages, Intel LNL, BMG Graphics Enabled (phoronix.com)
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates have been submitted and already merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel.

Linux Kernel, DRM, Graphics Drivers, Intel

3 points by rbanffy 154 days ago | 0 comments

Whither the Apple AGX graphics driver? (lwn.net)

Graphics Drivers, Apple, Hardware

14 points by todsacerdoti 170 days ago | 0 comments

The Open-Source AMD GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8M Lines (phoronix.com)