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> They could open-source their drivers and use the GPL symbols, of course, but unlike AMD or Intel I doubt they're going to do that. They already have, but the
by kaladin-jasnah 3y ago
> They could open-source their drivers and use the GPL symbols, of course, but unlike AMD or Intel I doubt they're going to do that.
They already have, but their open modules only work on newer cards. https://github.com/nvidia/open-gpu-kernel-modules https://github.com/nvidia/open-gpu-kernel-modules.
- fsflover 3y agoDiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344981
- jeroenhd 3y agoExactly, and those drivers should work perfectly fine without interruption. The open source driver is MIT+GPLv2, it's only the closed source driver that's still causing problems. Knowing Nvidia and how shit a company they are, they'll probably just drop Linux support for their older cards at some point and blame Linux.
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