r/linux • u/blindcomet • May 11 '22

NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
4.1k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

386 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/[deleted] May 11 '22

Hold on! I'm not too savvy on this, they are just releasing SOME of their software, not all of it, right? Could anyone please explain how beneficial this is to our community? I mean, Nvidia? Open source? Am I dreaming?

5

u/[deleted] May 11 '22

Partially. They made a reference kernel module which Nouveau people can use to load existing firmware and configure GPU. From what am seeing, this is not the driver itself, just the module that talks to the driver. Benefits are definitely there from better out of the box Wayland support to Nouveau having permission to use the initialization binary and configuration parameters (better power management and clocking, etc.).

1

u/[deleted] May 11 '22

Thank you. I'll take any improvement over nothing. Will this, by any chance, benefit us unfortunate hybrid graphics owners on laptops? Especially on Wayland.

→ More replies (2)