NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog
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With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs…
  • 30p87@feddit.de
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    4 months ago

    It’s not fully transitioned. Older GPUs, eg. Pascal, have to use closed source shit. Even if you have a newer and older GPU, you have to use the closed source modules. It’s far from actually open source, or even AMD-level.

  • taanegl@beehaw.org
    2·
    4 months ago

    And the haters doubted me. I said it, and I say it again: you can’t fuck with datacentre money, and as far as getting your hardware in the hands of developers, untainting that kernel will go a long way towards deeper development and testing.

    Just the development going into the interoperability between CPU and GPU is a massive step towards a convergence in compiling. I say that as someone who’s currently frying an egg on my laptop trying to compile a huge Rust project while my GPU languishes. Feh.

    It was only a matter of time before we get all that bare metal code out in the open, which means I can hope that my GTX 1060 will receive premium support on Linux, mere months before I switch to an AMD APU lol

    Was the wait with it? No. Was it fun? …no.