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I orbit someone on the nouveau team, so I might be a bit biased with regard to Nvidia

As far as I can tell, Nvidia has two modes of operation with the Linux community, "hostile" and "inept"

Hostile is when they do things like require signed firmware for their GPU's or try to force their will on things like EGLstreams, while everyone else is using GBM

Inept is their situation with things like the Tegra mobile platforms. They simply use nouveau instead I'm told. Even though the two GPU lines of course, share a ton of engineering. For some reason they just decided it's easier to use nouveau on that side, and only that side



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