The Nouveau kernel driver has added support for newer generations of GPUs over time, but usually months after the GPUs premiere. All blocked up by the signed firmware requirements and lack of PMU access. As a result, the open-source driver graphics performance has been horrible for the GTX 900 series and later. In particular, since the GeForce GTX 900 series and the signed firmware requirements, those GTX 900 Maxwell and newer GPU series have been stuck to running at the low boot clock frequencies with the inability to ramp up to the higher performance states. The upstream Nouveau driver in the Linux kernel providing this open-source, reverse-engineered driver support hasn't changed much in recent years. Fortunately, that is changing with Linux 6.2 set to receive a rather big update. ![]() ![]() It's been a long time since there has been much in the way of notable Nouveau DRM driver changes merged to the Linux kernel for improving the open-source NVIDIA graphics support.
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