Le 12/12/2013 08:58, Matthias Nagel a écrit :

Hi Martin,

if you refer to my kernel version. 3.10.17 is the latest, stable version in the official gentoo repository for the amd64 architeture. See here

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[4] https://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources?full_cat

As long as I do not miss any features, I stay with the stable version.

Indeed, you are doing the right thing, I guess. But if you encounter any sort of crash, I really advise you to go against gentoo on this and update your kernel to the latest official release (3.12.x at the moment). FYI, the 3.12 brings performance improvements to Nouveau too.

Hence, if I understand you correctly, there are kernel version (newer than some unknown point in time) that already include the firmware? If this is the case, someone who knows the exact kernel version should mention that point on

[1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM/
[2] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/
[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480832

and update the information.

What I wanted to say is that adding good fw support usually spans across multiple kernels. Even 3.13 has kepler fw fixes IIRC and 3.14 will receive some more updates to support new chipsets. It isn't a binary thing so this is hard to tell we support a feature...

I guess we could tell when is the first free implementation (with the possible fallback of using the blob's firmware[1]) and then when we added support for all chipsets of the family and it has been fairly-extensively tested and bug-free. Some cards would never pass the test though :s

[1] NvGrUseFw, http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModuleParameters/

Cheers,
Martin