Hello Fedorans. I suppose this changes things, right? But how?
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-mod...
As far as I know this would still not be acceptable in Fedora due to the "No external kernel modules" rule, right?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packag...
This is certainly good news but I think we'll need to wait until a release on the mainline.
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 7:44 AM Miro Hrončok mhroncok@redhat.com wrote:
Hello Fedorans. I suppose this changes things, right? But how?
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-mod...
As far as I know this would still not be acceptable in Fedora due to the "No external kernel modules" rule, right?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packag...
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Hello Fedorans. I suppose this changes things, right? But how?
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-mod...
In the short term this changes little, the should be build-able similar to how the other proprietary NV kernel modules are now though. In time they'll no doubt go upstream, either in their own right or be integrated into the nouveau driver. This will take time and I suspect the outcome will be very similar to the way the AMD GPU drivers work where they have an open driver and a firmware.
Overall it's good news and positive for all of the ecosystem. It seems also it's primarily focused, at least initially, on their data centre GPUs so I suspect they'll be more stable/useful for AI/ML/CUDA workloads than the average desktop user.
As far as I know this would still not be acceptable in Fedora due to the "No external kernel modules" rule, right?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packag...
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Hi,
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 7:44 AM Miro Hrončok mhroncok@redhat.com wrote:
Hello Fedorans. I suppose this changes things, right? But how?
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-mod...
As far as I know this would still not be acceptable in Fedora due to the "No external kernel modules" rule, right?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packag...
Christian Schaller has posted an article on that:
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-source-driver-rele...
As I understood it, there is still a lot of work to be done for this driver to be usable in generic use cases.
This step is a huge thing for NVIDIA and the industry, but it is just a first step. And it seems that the most immediate impact we will see is the changes and improvements in the noveau driver.
I don't think Nvidia has any intention to add this to mainline kernel as it would block use of the propriety driver. I zero interest in packaging it for rpmfusion as it's so limited, see
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/515.43.04/README/kernel_o...
As far as I know, RedHat is working with Nvidia to get this upstream and working with nouveau.
I'm sure there's a bunch of challenges around that though, so I don't expect much over the next few quarters.
On 12/05/2022 11:40, Aleksandra Fedorova wrote:
And it seems that the most immediate impact we will see is the changes and improvements in the noveau driver.
This will only be possible if NVIDIA releases GPU specs.
On 12/05/2022 07:43, Miro Hrončok wrote:
As far as I know this would still not be acceptable in Fedora due to the "No external kernel modules" rule, right?
I think these kernel modules should be upstreamed directly to the Linux kernel.
On 12/05/2022 07:43, Miro Hrončok wrote:
I think these kernel modules should be upstreamed directly to the Linux kernel.
That would block the use of 390xx, 470xx and mai, see
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/515.43.04/README/kernel_o...