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NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules (developer.nvidia.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

And the haters doubted me. I said it, and I say it again: you can't fuck with datacentre money, and as far as getting your hardware in the hands of developers, untainting that kernel will go a long way towards deeper development and testing.

Just the development going into the interoperability between CPU and GPU is a massive step towards a convergence in compiling. I say that as someone who's currently frying an egg on my laptop trying to compile a huge Rust project while my GPU languishes. Feh.

It was only a matter of time before we get all that bare metal code out in the open, which means I can hope that my GTX 1060 will receive premium support on Linux, mere months before I switch to an AMD APU lol

Was the wait with it? No. Was it fun? ...no.