Message-ID: <68a3a7a7@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: nVidia GPU drivers on Linux Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <107kmkc$fjp8$1@dont-email.me> <107l0nf$j2u2$1@dont-email.me> <107l1uk$jff8$1@dont-email.me> <68a04340$0$24825$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <107qivh$1rj1g$5@dont-email.me> <107skje$2al4g$1@dont-email.me> <107toei$2lrr3$1@dont-email.me> <107uo47$2u106$1@dont-email.me> <7c6dnTAF59CBeD_1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20250707 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 19 Aug 2025 08:22:31 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 21 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71591 Joerg Walther wrote: > c186282 wrote: >>WHY are we relying on INTEL to produce >>Linux drivers for NVidia ? > > Because Intel does not publish the source code to its drivers I think they do contribute to the drivers in the Linux kernel which is what this discussion was all about. Those are, by definition, open-source. Firmware binaries are another matter. For Nvidia too, I believe their latest Linux driver efforts, since 2022, are open-source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-open-kernel Their code is here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#