On Thu, 2021-09-02 at 10:07 +1000, Ben Skeggs wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sept 2021 at 08:25, Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > [ > > ..] > > Sadly there isn't much you can do right now as the next step is to > > wait until Nvidia releases and publishes firmware files in order to > > enable acceleration in Nouveau. Once that happens we will enable > > OpenGL on those GPUs and then everybody is welcomed to report bugs > > and > > so on. But atm it just stalls on the initial enablement of those > > pieces. The firmware would land in the linux-firmware repository > > under > > nvidia/ga104 for your GPU. > I have had a whole slew of code sitting around locally for quite a > while now, towards enabling acceleration on these GPUs. Ampere has > some significant changes in a few areas. It hadn't been a huge > priority to push out due to the lack of available firmware, and I'd > taken the opportunity to work it in with numerous other improvements > which will benefit earlier chipsets / work towards enabling Vulkan at > the same time. > > However, it turns out Optimus/Prime without copy engine support > (engine/ce, which depends on engine/host) is probably not possible. > And, likely unusable even if it were. So, I'm working furiously to > get those chunks of it ready ASAP to at least enable those use-cases. > Hopefully full acceleration will appear not too long afterwards, I'm > working with NVIDIA on it. > > > Thank you very much for the info! I'll sit tight and watch the list. -- Kind regards, Przemo Firszt
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