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Nvidia will be pushing users of recent generation cards to the open source modules rather than their proprietary modules! (forums.developer.nvidia.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 6 months ago

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

Hehe, yeah that'd be hard to achieve.