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NVIDIA Engineer Posts New NOVA Driver Patches - Still Far From Doing Anything Useful

Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel were the very early boilerplate code around the NOVA driver as a new, open-source and Rust-written NVIDIA Linux kernel graphics/display driver

But depending upon the GSP also means the NOVA driver will only work with RTX 20 class GPUs and newer. This driver is going to be built up gradually within the mainline Linux kernel and coming out this Easter were a new set of 16 patches for further laying the NOVA groundwork. While it is still far from bringing the GPU into a state where it can do anything useful, it sets up the basic layout of the driver upon which we can build in order to continue with the next steps of GSP booting, as well as supporting more chipsets.

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