[Nouveau] RTX 3070 / NV174 / GA104 - is there any development happening?

[Przemo Firszt]

On Thu, 2021-09-02 at 10:07 +1000, Ben Skeggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sept 2021 at 08:25, Karol Herbst <kherbst at redhat.com>
> 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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