In the small chance that this comment is serious, Nvidia is found this because the corporate server-based customers need the ability to troubleshoot and debug the driver.
The actual trade secrets are being moved into the proprietary firmware blob and out of the driver.
Dude, the kernel is OSS. WTF are you on about? Ever heard of Zen+ or Xanmod? What’s keeping Nvidia from doing just that and have the Nvidia GPU owners just use their nodded kernel?
Looks like the birdie has escaped phoronix…
In the small chance that this comment is serious, Nvidia is found this because the corporate server-based customers need the ability to troubleshoot and debug the driver.
The actual trade secrets are being moved into the proprietary firmware blob and out of the driver.
Which will still be enough for Linus to prevent NVidia from getting full access to the kernel internals.
Dude, the kernel is OSS. WTF are you on about? Ever heard of Zen+ or Xanmod? What’s keeping Nvidia from doing just that and have the Nvidia GPU owners just use their nodded kernel?