Re:Red Hat to Author New Linux Driver for Nvidia GPUs in Rust
by zekica on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:57AM
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> but that raises the question of why Red Hat are writing a new driver
Nvidia's driver cannot be included in the upstream linux as it doesn't follow kernel coding style and code organization, but more importantly it is tightly coupled to a single version of their GSP firmware - they have to be updated at the same time.
Nvidia's driver cannot be included in the upstream linux as it doesn't follow kernel coding style and code organization, but more importantly it is tightly coupled to a single version of their GSP firmware - they have to be updated at the same time.