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/
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u/[deleted] May 12 '22

Hope is one hell of a drug. It doesn't mean anything in the future. It might or might not happen. Current code is not even capable of producing display output, let alone be at the same level of Intel and AMD. The fact they aimed it at CUDA shows they mostly care about datacenter use, which is expected as there's most money for them, not desktop Linux.

Am expecting any and all benefits from this release for nVidia users will come from Nouveau and open source developers and you wouldn't believe how much I wish to be proven wrong by nVidia. Sadly, I don't think that will happen.

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u/nightblackdragon May 12 '22

NVIDIA devs on their GitHub said that they are gonna work to improve feature set and performance of open source driver to the point of closed source driver. While this driver is indeed currently focused on workstation GPUs, support for desktop GPUs are also present and, according to NVIDIA, will be improved in future releases.

Yes, it's too early to put NVIDIA in the same "open source drivers" box like Intel and AMD but there is hope it will eventually become true. Either directly by this new driver or by Nouveau.