As Ben Skeggs wrote in the commit message when introducing this new driver, "The primary motivation for this rewrite was to have a maintainable driver going forward, as nvfx was quite horrible in a lot of ways." Recently work began on the "NV30" driver to replace the GeForce FX/6/7 series support and a new 13,725 line driver was born for this NV30/NV40 class hardware. This open-source driver mostly worked for what now is vintage hardware, but the driver was no longer being worked on and went into a dormant state. The nearly 15,000 lines of code "NVFX" driver had been around for quite a while to actively support the NVIDIA GeForce 5 (FX), 6, and 7 series graphics processors. Unfortunately, for at least some hardware, this Nouveau support is still a busted mess. One week ago following the committing of the major libdrm re-write for the Nouveau project, the "NVFX" Gallium3D driver was dropped and succeeded by a new "NV30" driver for the GeForce FX/6/7 series GPUs.
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