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NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau
Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver support had joined NVIDIA last year and continued his engagements with the open-source Linux community
While the Rust-written NOVA driver is looked at as the future of upstream, open-source NVIDIA GPU support in the Linux kernel, it's simply not ready yet. So while NOVA is effectively the successor to the Nouveau kernel driver, for the near-term at least the Nouveau driver will continue sticking around for new hardware -- plus an indefinite future with older NVIDIA GPUs that lack the GPU System Processor (GSP) with NOVA only supporting Turing GPUs and newer. Ben Skeggs posted the set of 60 patches alongside the tentative GSP-RM firmware from the NVIDIA 570 series driver.
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