Linux on the Mac – state of the union

Re:Linux on the Mac – state of the union by rodgerd on Monday December 12, 2016 @03:50AM (#13156628)

> what advantage is there these days in Nvidia not open-sourcing the drivers?

AMD have demonstrated that trying to do the right thing will get you shit from the maintainers and abuse from bystanders, who will then go and buy Nvidia because it gets a better frame rate.

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Re:Linux on the Mac – state of the union by wtallis on Monday December 12, 2016 @03:55AM (#13156662)

AMD's been in the news for trying to half-ass the right thing, and asking the community to lower their standards because AMD is too poor to do the job right.

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Re:Linux on the Mac – state of the union by antspiders on Monday December 12, 2016 @01:03PM (#13160177)

I never understand this sentiment: AMD is still putting in effort for a token market (Linux is something like 0.3% of computers if you don't count servers/embedded). Would you rather have them do nothing and leave the cards poorly supported?

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Re:Linux on the Mac – state of the union by prodigal_erik on Monday December 12, 2016 @03:56PM (#13161821)

They're putting in token effort and trying to create an impediment for Linux kernel development even on other hardware. And they were warned months ago that it wasn't going to fly.

Having a driver is good, but putting it in-kernel is bad if the kernel devs can't read it and fix it.

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