this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
57 points (98.3% liked)
Linux
5539 readers
96 users here now
A community for everything relating to the linux operating system
Also check out [email protected]
Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Nvidia released open source drivers in 2024.
Which are barely more than a first step as they are just the bare minimum with everything else being proprietary and pushed to userspace.
I think you have that backwards...
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
No doubt, but where does the documentation explain that? It's not totally surprising that the firmware would remain closed source for now.
Regardless of the fact that firmware and userspace components are still closed source, this is still an improvement for the Nvidia + Linux relationship.