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Open-Source NVIDIA Blackwell + Hopper Support Slated For Linux 6.16


Coming somewhat as a surprise is the Nouveau driver patches for enabling NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs has now been queued to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window

Coming somewhat as a surprise is the Nouveau driver patches for enabling NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs has now been queued to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. This merge request for Mesa has yet to land but provides the initial Blackwell support for the NVK open-source Vulkan driver. This merge today to DRM-Next has the 4,619 insertions and 8,090 deletions for lining up the initial Blackwell and Hopper GPU support for Nouveau.

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