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Re: nVidia GPU drivers on Linux

Message-ID <68a3a7a7@news.ausics.net> (permalink)
From not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject Re: nVidia GPU drivers on Linux
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
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Date 2025-08-19 08:22 +1000
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Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> 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

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