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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by mywittyname on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:34PM (#26186726)
This doesn't seem that far fetched. Especially since miners don't need to produce full-featured drivers.
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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by TomVDB on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:39PM (#26187408)
When GPUs are know to use signed firmware, when open source coders need to ask for signed firmware to make even a minimal feature open source GPU driver work, and when there’s no evidence at all that high performance custom made mining-only drivers exist, then that seems very far fetched to me.
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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by the-enterprise on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:19AM (#26192812)
Not so much a new driver, but here is an example of drivers being patched for mining. https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch
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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by TomVDB on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:35AM (#26194226)
Indeed. Not a new driver at all.

What this tells me is that they just didn’t care enough to lock this down hard.

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