Re:A Nouveau graphics driver update
by MadnessASAP on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:19PM
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I can think of a dozen ways for a GPU driver to affect Wireless NIC. They're both kernel mode so good ol' fashioned SW bugs is a start. Then you could have bad firmware tables causing one driver to trample on the wrong device. All the way too the GPU interfering directly on the bus.
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Re:A Nouveau graphics driver update
by michaelmrose on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:59PM
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If this was so you would be able to trivially reproduce in 60 seconds by rebooting with the in kernel driver in place of the NVIDIA driver. Then you can write a blog post exploring the nature of a bug as likely as you finding out you were the secret love child of Elon Musk and the direct descendant of the Lindbergh baby.