New NVIDIA Open-Source Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Appears

[OneTimeShot]

Pretty sure Tegra has been open source for ages now? It’s their mobile phone chip, isn’t it?

[rastersoft]

But what if this leak was not a result of successful hacking but a deliberate attempt of an NVIDIA employee to steer the company towards the open-source path faster?

That employee should start to check plane tickets to somewhere without extradition agreements with the USA...

[danboid]

I hope this 'new' driver brings HDMI 2.0+ support to the mainline kernel for Tegra users.

[rastersoft]

What if NVIDIA has actually yielded to LAPSUS$ demands? That would be truly massive.

Very improbable: freeing the drivers would require an exhaustive legal revision to ensure that nothing that belongs to other companies and that is used under agreements is published. AMD needed a lot of time to prepare for that, and it only freed documentation, not code. So I don't think that this has anything to do with that.

[brucethemoose]

But what if this leak was not a result of successful hacking but a deliberate attempt of an NVIDIA employee to steer the company towards the open-source path faster?

Given everyone they've hacked, it seems more like Lapsus stumbled onto a big exploit, rather than this being some kind of inside job.

[furtadopires]

I hope Nouveau devs can take something useful from this code, like Radv took from AMD.

I'm not a Nvidia user, but I hold all Mesa developers in high regard

[_ReD_]

Nvidia did what??? ... but, but, lapsu$... but not for desk...
Whatever! I'll take it.
Thanks, Nvidia.

[c117152]

At least it seems relevant to contemporary products: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedde...nity/lifecycle

If I had to guess, they wanted to release it a year ago when Nintendo EOLed the Switch but something held them back until now.

[shmerl]

It's one week late?

[Developer12]

Big nothing-burger. Nvidia's mobile ARM chips have had open-source drivers for ages now.