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https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc... Coming up on

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc... Coming up on a year since they've had source code available.

junon 4y ago
For closed source blob adapters, which I suppose is something. It will allow kernel developers to integrate their drivers, without a really having the sources to the driver itself. You still get a closed source blob.
- dotnet00 4y ago
  Even AMD has closed source blobs as firmware though?
  - junon 4y ago
    Not sure they have open source adapters though. Maybe they do. But the big release from Nvidia last year was that you can see and use the code that calls into their blobs.
jmclnx 4y ago
>NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515 Seems only for a specific chip rev, does nothing for older revs. Also since it is a module, I presume just for Linux, does nothing for OpenBSD (especially) and probably do nothing for NetBSD. FYI, OpenBSD does not support kernel modules like Linux does.
- dotnet00 4y ago
  It's open source, which was the point being referenced by the post I replied to. The BSDs can use the code to guide their own implementations, as they have done for various other drivers. Also, it supports everything Turing onwards, which, while not ideal, does cover all the hardware they've made in the past 4.5 years.