Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs, with GeForce and Workstation GPUs in an alpha state. At the time, we announced that more robust and fully-featured GeForce and Workstation Linux…
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Any news on this: Invalid pointer free · Issue #585 · NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules · GitHub ?
Will the open source kernel module be distributed as a kmod? Right now it’s DKMS-only.
shoutout Dan, great news!
This has not been fixed as of the initial 560 beta driver.
In my opinion, GSP is not ready for desktop/gaming usage as it causes massive stutters on OpenGL/Vulkan/CUDA context creation and I also have observed stutters when querying GPU stats through NVML.