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Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17
For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version.
For Linux 6.17 the NOVA code sent out on Friday to DRM-Next still isn't ready for end-users but continues implementing more functionality and simultaneously building out the Rust support for Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) infrastructure. Alexandre Courbot is the NVIDIA engineer who is now serving as NOVA's co-maintainer as previously covered on Phoronix. And then the code changes are a lot of Rust infrastructure work and other low-level builts for further building out the NOVA driver.
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