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Nvidia Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Soon Be the Default for Turing, Newer GPUs

by profwalkstr on 5/11/24, 1:15 PM with 10 comments

  • by elromulous on 5/11/24, 2:21 PM

    Iirc a ton of the driver code than really matters (can someone add detail?) is still (and likely forever will be) closed source.
  • by kentonv on 5/11/24, 2:53 PM

    I wonder if these open drivers will be permitted to implement HDMI 2.1 (e.g. 8k resolution)? Apparently the HDMI Forum has told AMD they cannot support HDMI 2.1 in their own open source drivers, which infuriatingly means the only way to get 8k over HDMI on Linux right now is to use Nvidia's closed drivers... Are we about to lose HDMI 2.1 entirely on Linux?

    (I know, this is ridiculous and we should use DisplayPort instead. I'm just curious.)

  • by dindresto on 5/11/24, 1:47 PM

    Isn't CUDA still incompatible with the open kernel driver?