Get the latest tech news
RFC Patches Posted For Rust-Written NVIDIA "Nova" GPU Driver
Red Hat engineers have been developing Nova as a new, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA kernel graphics driver as the eventual successor to the Nouveau kernel driver and is designed around NVIDIA's GPU System Processor (GSP) thus making the driver relevant for RTX 20 / Turing GPUs and newer
Today they posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series of the Nova driver and Rust DRM abstractions. Danilo Krummrich of Red Hat today posted the RFC patch series of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) Rust language abstractions and a stub implementation of the Nova GPU driver. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
Or read this on Phoronix