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NVIDIA open-sourced its GPU kernel module. Time to integrate it into xanmod?
It's by no means ready, let alone usable. It's incomplete, contains MANY binary blobs, and performs terribly, and crashes a bunch.
means ready, let alone usable. It's incomplete, co
Define 'usable', at least it is ready for Archlinux official.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia-open/
It's incomplete, contains MANY binary blobs, and performs terribly, and crashes a bunch.
Where is the 'MANY binary blobs': https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia-open/files/
CUDA, Vulkan, Tensorcore drivers, ML acceleration, and more are all closed source in the "open" driver.
CUDA, Vulkan, Tensorcore drivers, ML acceleration, and more are all closed source in the "open" driver.
linux kernel is not for those, right?
The Linux kernel isn't for incorporating a driver where most of the important code is closed source :laughing:
The Linux kernel isn't for incorporating a driver where most of the important code is closed source 😆
i agree but why this relates to integrating the open-part into the kernel?
The open-source kernel-mode driver works with the same firmware and the same user-mode stacks such as CUDA, OpenGL, and Vulkan. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
Because the "open part" is nothing more than a surface-level userland gateway to closed source software.
Because the "open part" is nothing more than a surface-level userland gateway to closed source software.
well, in that way xanmod kernel has lots of 'nothing more' already. e.g. winesync, Android ashmem and binder, etc. they are for running the 'closed source software'.