On 2025-02-27, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue Feb 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM GMT, Greg wrote: >> Did I read somewhere that the maintainer of the nouveau driver >> resigned due to the toxic atmosphere among the kernel developers, or >> did I dream that? > > The lead of the Asahi project (providing support for Apple-silicon Macs) > recently resigned. Perhaps you're thinking of that.
Thank you, but the article I saw (I looked it up) actually referred to Karol Herbst. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Karol-Herbst-Nouveau-No Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver. But today he announced he's resigning as a Nouveau driver maintainer due to differences with the upstream Linux kernel developer community. > I read today that Christoph Hellwig, who was the person on the other > side of that argument, has just stepped down from 2 of his kernel > responsibilities, including the DRM subsystem. > > > >
