Phoronix Readers Help With Nouveau Power Management

If you thought you had to be an advanced computer programmer to be of significant help with an open-source project, especially when it comes to something very technical like a graphics processor driver, guess again. The Nouveau developers send their regards to those of you that submitted dumps of their video BIOS and strap registers in order to help them with their reverse-engineering of memory timing manipulation for the Nouveau driver.

It turns out after we passed along the notice of Nouveau developers needing this information dumps for a wide variety of NVIDIA hardware to test their theories concerning the memory timing tables, Phoronix readers came through and submitted dozens of dumps, which is more than they needed or were expecting. As said on Nouveau IRC:

btw, phoronix helped us quite a bit, we have 68 vbioses along with timing info and the associated strap register. PM will get a lot faster now that we can check on tons of vbios!

Nouveau power management can now move forward further and faster thanks to all of you and the great work of these free software developers.