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That's out of date, I believe. Nvidia went open source last year, though they did that by moving a lot of code from the drivers over to their firmware (in binar
by wswope 3y ago
That's out of date, I believe. Nvidia went open source last year, though they did that by moving a lot of code from the drivers over to their firmware (in binary blob form).
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc...
- circuit10 3y agoThat’s only for the kernel part, not the userspace part
- opencl 3y agoThose open source kernel modules are not usable in any practical sense for consumer hardware in their current state. From the repo readme[1], "GeForce and Workstation support is still considered alpha-quality." [1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
- captn3m0 3y agoAnother limitation was in the GPUs supported - only the latest generation is supported, so no support for common consumer level cards - (1050, 1080 etc).