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FYI All current and future Nvidia drivers are open source, since blackwell.

• kcb 1y ago
  Kernel driver only.
  • cromka 1y ago
    Is AMD different, do they OpenSource firmware as well?
    • ItsHarper 1y ago
      They have an open source userspace component.
• jonkoops 1y ago
  But they are not in the actual Linux kernel, and are a separate module that does not adhere to Linux kernel code conventions. It also has no user-space driver that isn't NVIDIA's proprietary driver. Anything further open-source such as NVK is not being worked on by NVIDIA, but by other 3rd parties. Compared to AMD and Intel, NVIDIA is very much not an 'out of the box', or stable experience.
• mdaniel 1y ago
  Saying "and future" is like taunting fate Anyway, in case someone was interested it seems the code itself is cited as MIT, however it has a "when it becomes a Linux .ko it becomes GPLv2" clause https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.76.05/COPYING https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.7... and they do go out of their way to say "lol, needs binary blobs" https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.76.05/README.md?plain=1#L18-L19 https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.7... That XFree86.run has always struck me as "you're gonna what*?"
  • account42 1y ago
    To be fair, AMD's driver also needs proprietary firmware blobs. This is still infinitely better than having mistery sauce running in kernel space directly. A bigger problem is that there is no performant open source user-space counterpart like there is for AMD (Mesa with radeonsi for OpenGL and radv for Vulkan).