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		p_l on July 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux... That was the "classic" drivers. The new open source ones effectively move majority of the OS-agnostic component to run as blob on-GPU.

arghwhat on July 17, 2024 [–]

Not quite - it moves some logic to the GSP firmware, but the user-space driver is still a significant portion of code.

The exciting bits there is the work on NVK.

p_l on July 17, 2024 | [–]

Yes, I was not including userspace driver in this, as a bit "out of scope" for the conversation :D

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