This is specifically about the kernel driver part. Most of the GPU software stack can reasonably be outside the kernel. There's no obvious reason why much of

This is specifically about the kernel driver part. Most of the GPU software stack can reasonably be outside the kernel. There's no obvious reason why much of it would need to be in ring-0 where bugs cause OS crashes and security vulnerabilities. > Meanwhile the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver is around 201k (21.7k blank lines, 24.3k lines of comments, and 155k lines of code). Or the Intel i915 DRM kernel graphics driver is around 381k lines via the same cloc judgment. But without separate line counts of the generated data tables and actual human written code, we don't have the real line count numbers to compare.