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2024-03-21 |
Red Hat plans new NVIDIA open source driver |
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Danilo Krummrich from Red Hat as announced the company has started work on a new video driver for NVIDIA cards. The new driver is written in Rust and is intended to eventually replace the Nouveau open source driver. "With Nova we see the chance to significantly decrease the complexity of the driver compared to Nouveau for mainly two reasons. First, Nouveau's historic architecture, especially around nvif/nvkm, is rather complicated and inflexible and requires major rework to solve certain problems (such as locking hierarchy in VMM / MMU code for VM_BIND currently being solved with a workaround) and second, with a GSP-only driver there is no need to maintain compatibility with pre-GSP code. Besides that, we also want to take the chance to contribute to the Rust efforts in the kernel and benefit from from more memory safety offered by the Rust programming language." Additional information about the new driver can be found in Krummrich's mailing list post. |
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