Nouveau Project Reverse-Engineered NVIDIA OpenCL Driver @ Phoronix

Posted on Tuesday, February 07 2012 @ 18:52 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Phoronix reports Noveau has created an open-source OpenCL driver for NVIDIA graphics cards.
There's another big accomplishment within the open-source graphics camp: Nouveau developers now having an initial working OpenCL implementation for NVIDIA GeForce graphics hardware on the driver that the Linux community developed themselves via reverse-engineering without NVIDIA's support.


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