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The title of this statement is misleading: NVIDIA is not transitioning to open-source drivers for its GPUs; most or all user-space parts of the drivers (and mo
by einpoklum 2y ago
The title of this statement is misleading:
NVIDIA is not transitioning to open-source drivers for its GPUs; most or all user-space parts of the drivers (and most importantly for me, libcuda.so) are closed-source; and as I understand from others, most of the logic is now in a binary blob that gets sent to the GPU.
Now, I'm sure this open-sourcing has its uses, but for people who want to do something like a different hardware backend for CUDA with the same API, or to clear up "corners" of the API semantics, or to write things in a different-language without going through the C API - this does not help us.