As a reminder, this open-source GPU kernel driver support is currently just around their kernel driver. This kernel driver code remains out-of-tree / distributed as part of a GitHub repository or their packaged Linux driver releases. NVIDIA did recently hire the former Nouveau kernel driver maintainer and another NVIDIA engineer has begun contributing to the open-source NVK driver but so far there's no indications of major shifts around going open-source on the user-space driver side, especially around their walled CUDA compute garden.
Still, a nice step.
> As a reminder, this open-source GPU kernel driver support is currently just around their kernel driver. This kernel driver code remains out-of-tree / distributed as part of a GitHub repository or their packaged Linux driver releases. NVIDIA did recently hire the former Nouveau kernel driver maintainer and another NVIDIA engineer has begun contributing to the open-source NVK driver but so far there's no indications of major shifts around going open-source on the user-space driver side, especially around their walled CUDA compute garden.
Still, a nice step.
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