Article 6VT5N The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15

The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15

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Michael Larabel
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For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn't too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau's extensive range of NVIDIA GPU support, the NOVA driver is intentionally limited to the RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs and newer where there is the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) with the firmware support to leverage for an easier driver-writing experience. The very initial NOVA driver code was sent out on Sunday for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...
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