Fingers crossed this isn’t like Google hiring developers of the custom ROM community so as to undermine their projects.
If that would be case I doubt he would push patches to Nouveau under his Nvidia work email address.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ben Skeggs, former Nouveau lead developer and former Red Hat employee has joined NVIDIA.
He resigned from Nouveau development as a personal decision removing himself from the MAINTAINERS file September of last year.
After months of being radio silent in Nouveau driver development, Skeggs sent a massive 156 patch set as a follow-up on the Noveau GSP firmware enablement work, code cleanup, ioctl-like interfaces between NVKM and the Nouveau DMS driver which will reduce driver overhead and call chain complexity.
The important part for this news is that this patch series was submitted using his new NVIDIA work email address.
Strange times indeed since, no one was expecting that Skeggs would be at NVIDIA, and due to the history involved with that company that he would also continue to contribute directly with Nouveau.
Looks like history may be repeating itself with AMD and Radeon…could this be another sign of NVIDIA opening more up?
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I worry that because he is now seeing proprietary code, he won’t be able to work so much on the open source one without introducing the possibility of a lawsuit due to it arguably no longer being a clean-room reverse-engineering
