Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule
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Open Linux Kernel Modules Installed by Default Starting in the release 560 series, it will be recommended to use the open flavor of NVIDIA Linux Kernel Modules wherever possible (Turing or later GPUs, or Ada or later when using GPU virtualization). If installing from the .run file, installation will detect what GPUs are present and default to installing the open kernel modules if all NVIDIA GPUs in the system can be driven by the open kernel modules. Distribution-specific repackaging of the...
  • Jajcus
    3•8 months ago

    Didn’t they just move the code that was previously executed in the proprietary kernel module to the new also proprietary userspace driver

    Probably. And that is exactly what was expected from them since the beginning of their Linux drivers. Kernel is not a place for such big and proprietary piece of code. So this is the important change.

    Yes, the driver is still proprietary, but it does not break the kernel any more the way it did.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•8 months ago

      it does not break the kernel any more the way it did.

      Hehe, yeah that’d be hard to achieve.