Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m...
by dathinab on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:07AM
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AMD didn't directly open source their driver because if legal issues.
The point is it's not about open sourcing your properitary driver but about not getting in the way of an alternative open source driver, maybe even letting it a bit of an have even if just unofficially.
I thing if I where nvidea I might go in the direction of having a fully it at least partially open source driver for graphic stuff and a not so open source driver for headless CUDA (potentially running alongside a Intel integrated graphics based head/GUI).
Through I don't know what they plan wrt. ARM desktops/servers so this might conflict with their strategies there.
The point is it's not about open sourcing your properitary driver but about not getting in the way of an alternative open source driver, maybe even letting it a bit of an have even if just unofficially.
I thing if I where nvidea I might go in the direction of having a fully it at least partially open source driver for graphic stuff and a not so open source driver for headless CUDA (potentially running alongside a Intel integrated graphics based head/GUI).
Through I don't know what they plan wrt. ARM desktops/servers so this might conflict with their strategies there.