Then it's not an Ivy Bridge running multiple external displays on KDE.
> Honestly, this is just ridiculous. Go ask the Nouveau folks how their reverse engineering project is going.
Nvidia created an actively hostile firmware situation. We already have the firmware story worked out. Plus having to support a bazillion GPU generations with incompatible interfaces burns people out. We're starting with one, and Apple has a much better track record of incremental change and avoiding hardware churn. This is unique, and we've literally heard from Apple employees that this is an explicit goal. It shows all throughout the SoC design.
> and all you can do is keep on reverse engineering in the hopes of keeping up.
And we will keep on reverse engineering, and we'll keep up :-)