NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust GPU Driver (www.phoronix.com)

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The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer.

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[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

I remember the doom and gloom whenever he returned to working at Nvidia. “Oh they’re going to effectively kill the open source drivers.”

I’m glad he’s up to good work still.

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