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NVIDIA switching to open kernel modules by default in future driver update for Turing+ (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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This is the best summary I could come up with:

NVIDIA have announced some big changes are coming to their Linux drivers, which will start with the upcoming 560 series.

Starting in the release 560 series, it will be recommended to use the open flavor of NVIDIA Linux Kernel Modules wherever possible (Turing or later GPUs, or Ada or later when using GPU virtualization).

Distribution-specific repackaging of the NVIDIA driver may require additional steps, specific to that packaging, to choose the open flavor.

In the release 560 series, it will still be possible to configure the .run file to install the proprietary flavor of kernel modules, with the --kernel-module-type=proprietary command line option.

We still have the 555 Beta to come this month which will bring Explicit Sync support.

We've seen recently how the former Nouveau driver lead joined NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set, and then we had news that an NVIDIA developer contributed to the open source NVK driver and even on top of that they put up a script for GeForce NOW on Steam Deck.

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this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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