Coming soon: USB-C Linux support for Radeon graphics

[Moonstone Man]

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... B-C-Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 22 March 2021 at 04:49 PM EDT.
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With some Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards sporting a USB-C interface for USB-C monitors or VR headsets, AMD has been working on the open-source Linux driver support for this interface.

[antikythera]

Also coming soon, full Wayland Support by NVIDIA proprietary blobs according to Fedora Project. They've been working with NVIDIA to get Wayland working properly with their proprietary blobs. These Wayland compatible drivers will be released this Summer, a bit too late for Fedora 34 but ready for Fedora 35 coming later this year. The reason Fedora are pushing NVIDIA is they intend to make Wayland the default Compositor for the entire Project output (other spins as well as the main Workstation ISO) and drop X11.

Should benefit all distributions though including Mint. Cinnamon on Wayland? Yes please

[Portreve]

I don't care.

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Actually, I do care inasmuch as it's good to have choice for end users. Unfortunately, my present rig did not allow for any dedicated graphics card which is worth getting because I cannot upgrade my PSU to support them. At some future point, I might seriously consider building a new tower, at which point I'll at least entertain the possibility of going with Nvidia, though no guarantees. That said, why should I go with Nvidia and put up with their ongoing attitudes when ATI graphic cards are probably the better option in GNU+Linux anyhow.

[antikythera]

NVIDIA have changed their attitude since that famous Linus Torvalds incident. The fact they are actively working with Fedora Developers to support Wayland properly is an example of this. Another the excellent CUDA support for opencl and vulkan that they have already added to their drivers.

I guess the ultimate step will be to make contributions to the nouveau driver by way of releasing up to date blobs as opensource instead of the nouveau team still having to reverse engineer their way through.