Comment by sylware
11 hours ago
I understand the good will of the intent but... you have to understand that those driver code paths went thru massive QA over the years. On such complexe hardware, any modifications, even believed benign, can be disastrous for some/many software actually still 'in production'.
This is very risky: one guy QA over a massive amount of software with hardly a few remaining users able to report issues of with those GPUs...
Better have a slow working well tested driver, rather than a broken driver which is supposed to be faster...
That is a valid concern in theory, but in practice, improvements to drivers for old GPUs rarely break things. There are regression tests... and part of it might be Timor being very diligent in his work.