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NVIDIA's Open-Source Nova Driver Now Explicitly Requires 64-bit Support


As part of the Rust DRM drivers now having their own development tree, sent out today was the first pull request from the drm-rust-fixes branch.

As part of the Rust DRM drivers now having their own development tree, sent out today was the first pull request from the drm-rust-fixes branch. Short of being all-in on 32-bit for sentimental reasons, trying to stuff a modern NVIDIA GPU into an obsolete x86 system, or any other wild ideas, this now mandated 64-bit requirement for the Nova driver shouldn't really bite anyone. The patch now mandated CONFIG_64BIT for the Nova core DRM driver is being applied since otherwise the Rust code is running into build issues.

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