Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by monocasa on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:01PM (#24016990)

Sure, but they can't open source their existing drivers since it's really the same driver source for Linux and Windows with all the IP problems.

And they don't see the benefit to create new drivers.

I agree they should help out more.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by posguy on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:30PM (#24017184)

AMD supported Radeon & AMDGPU rather than releasing their own drivers, there is no reason Nvidia can't provide documentation and a simple open source firmware for their GPUs.

We could care less about the hacks and cludges baked into the proprietary Nvidia drivers and firmware focused on DirectX powered gaming. The current path Nvidia has chosen with signed firmware locks out open source developers from much of the low level operations of their GPUs.

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