Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support 581
sfcrazy writes "It seems that recent comments made by Linus Torvalds have made the people at NVIDIA take Linux more seriously. Recently Nvidia employee Stephen Warren asked in the Kernel Summit mailing list what could be done differently to make Linux support better. 'In a Google+ comment, Linus noted that we have mainly been contributing patches for Tegra SoC infra-structure details. I'm curious what other areas people might expect me/NVIDIA to contribute to. I assume the issue is mainly the lack of open support for the graphics-related parts of our HW, but perhaps there's some expectation that we'd also start helping out some core area of the kernel too? Would that kind of thing help our image even if we didn't open up our HW?'"
So score +1 Linus Torvalds? (Score:2, Funny)
I find your lack of faith disturbing...
A vulgar finger gesture got results.
Demand the moon, get a moon base.
Re:Of course (Score:5, Funny)
It's everything. An impressive feet given the selection of hardware available.
Must be a Gnome user...
Re:Ugh, this makes me mad. (Score:5, Funny)
Good Point. (sorry - lower case "P"s seem to be dead on this keyboard)
It is easy to imagine that Nvidia might make a contribution or more to the kernel, that would helP Performance. I'd much rather see everything oPen sourced, but if that can't be done - let them get their hands dirty, and make the drivers work better for Linux. Even if they never actually contribute kernel Patches, the attemPt to do so can only give them a better understanding of the whole system!