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The nvgpu/tegra drivers are all open source and GPL (nvgpu for Tegra has been open source for a long time) but they were until recently on an old 4.19 kernel. T
by aseipp 4y ago
The nvgpu/tegra drivers are all open source and GPL (nvgpu for Tegra has been open source for a long time) but they were until recently on an old 4.19 kernel. The latest is 5.10. There's also the usual firmware binary blob stuff as everyone else. There are rumors about them working on mainline support for the Orin SOC, and Orin is (AFAIK) designed primarily to use UEFI as its boot mechanism. So it may be looking a lot better soon as far as full custom distros are concerned. The userspace is still all closed, however.
I suspect a lot of the push for upstreaming (and the original Tegra GPU drivers being GPL) is from their automotive/industrial customers who want continuity guarantees.
- bullen 4y ago> The userspace is still all closed, however. What does this mean, can OpenGL not access the hardware without the userspace stuff?