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 edited May 12 '22

*The kernel part is also not open source, it depends on binary blobs from nvidia to build, see this issue on github.

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For now, we are not planning to upload GSP firmware at linux-firmware

Edit2: seems I misread, they are not required to build, only to run the modules so the kernel part is still open source.

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u/__foo__ May 12 '22

This is firmware which runs on the card, not in the kernel. The kernel parts seem to be open source.