Post Ak2NX0qvXeS6DHHZT6 by toadjaune@hostux.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ak2NWzMP5eRTaJzgFk by alarig@hostux.social
       2024-07-17T22:13:17Z
       
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       If one day I thought I’d be reading this.https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak2NX0qvXeS6DHHZT6 by toadjaune@hostux.social
       2024-07-17T22:26:11Z
       
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       @alarig I can't help but wonder if there's a catch. Like, "look, the gpu kernel module can be gpl now because it's basically empty now, everything is in the firmware running on the gpu itself", or something along those lines ?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak2NX1y3OdkNffcmDQ by alarig@hostux.social
       2024-07-17T22:30:35Z
       
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       @toadjaune Yeah, me too. I just check the gentoo git history and it’s there since nvidia-drivers-515.43.04 (11 May 2022) but as highly experimental: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ba623145fa97e7b208fdd831841cb2376dbfc7e7Perhaps it’s just considered stable now? 🤷 But there must be a trap somewhere.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak2NX2hmecKJxV1IUi by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2024-07-17T23:51:55.599404Z
       
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       @alarig @toadjaune Well last time I heard about it, the drivers were basically obfuscated/decompiled code and you had to sign assign copyright to Nvidia to contribute any code (thus allowing them to render it proprietary at any time).
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak2OfdCExqpdPAvPVY by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2024-07-18T00:04:37.746507Z
       
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       @alarig @toadjaune Also it's only be about the kernel modules, OpenGL/Vulkan/CUDA/VDPAU/NVENC/… drivers (which are in userspace) are still proprietary, same for the firmware.