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Nvidia Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Soon Be the Default for Turing, Newer GPUs
- dindresto 2y agoIsn't CUDA still incompatible with the open kernel driver?
- 201984 2y agoFrom TFA: > ...so far there's no indications of major shifts around going open-source on the user-space driver side, especially around their walled CUDA compute garden.
- aseipp 2y agoCUDA has been compatible with the open kernel modules for a while, in fact now that I looked it up, there's at least a handful of features that requires the open kernel drivers, including 1 CUDA specific one (DMABUF support): https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/550.78/README/kernel_open.html https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/550.78/READ...
- elromulous 2y agoIirc a ton of the driver code than really matters (can someone add detail?) is still (and likely forever will be) closed source.
- adamzegelin 2y agoAnything important and proprietary is now in firmware.
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- emersion 2y agoThe userspace components (GL/Vulkan driver, NVENC, etc) and the firmware remain closed source.
- kentonv 2y agoI wonder if these open drivers will be permitted to implement HDMI 2.1 (e.g. 8k resolution)? Apparently the HDMI Forum has told AMD they cannot support HDMI 2.1 in their own open source drivers, which infuriatingly means the only way to get 8k over HDMI on Linux right now is to use Nvidia's closed drivers... Are we about to lose HDMI 2.1 entirely on Linux? (I know, this is ridiculous and we should use DisplayPort instead. I'm just curious.)
- michaellarabel 2y agoNVIDIA can handle HDMI 2.1 with open-source driver as they punt it off to firmware - https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1
- kentonv 2y agoThanks! Now I wonder why AMD can't do the same.
- CuriousCosmic 2y agoThey could. They probably just didn't because they didn't foresee it being a problem.
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