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Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment
Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
But today he announced he's resigning as a Nouveau driver maintainer due to differences with the upstream Linux kernel developer community. This comes days after Hector Martin stepped down as an upstream Apple Silicon maintainer due to differences with the kernel development community. Karol explained on the patch renouncing his Nouveau maintainership:"I was pondering with myself for a while if I should just make it official that I'm not really involved in the kernel community anymore, neither as a reviewer, nor as a maintainer.
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