Nvidia will be pushing users of recent generation cards to the open source modules rather than their proprietary modules!
Nvidia will be pushing users of recent generation cards to the open source modules rather than their proprietary modules!
Open Linux Kernel Modules Installed by Default Starting in the release 560 series, it will be recommended to use the open flavor of NVIDIA Linux Kernel Modules wherever possible (Turing or later GPUs, or Ada or later when using GPU virtualization). If installing from the .run file, installation wi...
The headline is misleading. It's only about the kernel module. The driver itself will stay proprietary.
111Is this actually good or is it just performative PR?
25It's the legally required minimum to ship cars with Nvidia hardware and an embedded Linux OS.
37It's a step in the right direction
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19But this is the part where being open source is most important. For security, maintainability and convenience reasons
One could even argue if the usespace part, the OpenGl or Vulkan implementation, is still 'a driver'. (I think it is, at least partially)
5It's the part that can legally be distributed with Linux distributions (including in-car OS) due the kernel's license. The actual functionality is in the proprietary user space driver
9I'm not sure. Didn't they just move the code that was previously executed in the proprietary kernel module to the new also proprietary userspace driver that's just connected to the hardware by this new and open source wrapper module? And the other half into firmware? It's still arbitrary and closed code that gets forwarded to the hardware. And running there it has access to all the memory, screen content etc... I'm not sure if this is a win concerning security. I think it's pretty much unchanged.
But there are several big advantages. Now the kernel probably won't get tainted any longer and we can have signed kernels and activate secure boot easily. And that's maybe a big plus for security. And I hope we'll get the convenience, too. In the past I had the NVidia driver crap out on me while debugging stuff with recent kernel versions or release candidates. And NVidia was lagging behind, leaving me with a console instead of the desktop environment...
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whoa, did someone finally show them that Linus clip?!
23I guess this means that not having to rely on dkms for hardware means being able to run the latest kernels without the hardware being disabled.
14It's not likely that the driver will be mainlined anytime soon, so no. It's the same as with the proprietary kernel driver, except maybe some being able to patch problems with newer kernel versions by themselves.
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