Re:NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Ke...
by enoeht on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @03:02PM
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didn't they say that many times before?
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Re:NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Ke...
by vlovich123 on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @03:10PM
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Not sure but with the Turing series they support having a cryptographically signed binary blob that they load on the GPU. So before where their kernel driver was a thin shim for the user space driver, now it’s a thin shim for the black box firmware loaded on the GPU
Re:NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Ke...
by p_l on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @07:26PM
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the scope of what the kernel interface provides didn't change, but what was previously a blob wrapped by source-provided "os interface layer" is now moved to run on GSP (RISC-V based) inside the GPU.