NVIDIA exploring ways to support an upstream kernel mode GPU driver (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[-] Mereo@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A little explanation, there are two different types of drivers:

Kernel Drivers: The low-level software that directly controls your Video card, managing essential functions like memory and power.
User-space Drivers: The higher-level software that translates graphics commands from applications and games into instructions your video card can understand.

Here NVIDIA wants to kill the proprietary kernel driver and have the open source kernel included in the kernel by default. This means that the distros or you simply need to download the user-space binary blob driver without having to recompile the kernel driver every time the Nvidia drivers are updated.

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