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  • NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver

    Phoronix: NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver

    With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products. Over the past two years the support has evolved so much that NVIDIA is now promoting their open-source kernel driver usage and with the NVIDIA 560 Linux driver beta posted this week they are defaulting to using their open-source kernel driver modules in place of the proprietary option -- on the Turing and newer GPUs supported by the open-source code. Here is a fresh look at the impact.

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  • #2
    Thanks for the test Michael

    User space is still proprietary though
    It's a hard pass for me
    Last edited by Kjell; 26 July 2024, 01:25 PM.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Kjell View Post
      Thanks for the test Michael

      User space is still proprietary though
      It's a hard pass for me
      The available GSP firmware blob means that projects such as Nouveau & Nova will be able to make use of it, and hopefully bring a usable NVIDIA experience on Linux using the Mesa3D stack. I'm quite excited for it.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by AnErrupTion View Post

        The available GSP firmware blob means that projects such as Nouveau & Nova will be able to make use of it, and hopefully bring a usable NVIDIA experience on Linux using the Mesa3D stack. I'm quite excited for it.
        I'm glad people are volunteering their time to help ~~multibillion dollar~~ indie company which values open source

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        Last edited by Kjell; 26 July 2024, 01:39 PM.

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        • #5
          Awesome News !!!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by AnErrupTion View Post

            The available GSP firmware blob means that projects such as Nouveau & Nova will be able to make use of it, and hopefully bring a usable NVIDIA experience on Linux using the Mesa3D stack. I'm quite excited for it.
            Yeah, thank you for explaining that perspective. It was recently explained to me that because of how big the GSP is and how it is released per GPU it would blow up the size of linux-firmware, so it probably won't be upstreamed that way. But so long as distributions have a package for nVidia's GSP then I don't see a real big problem. Your perspective helps me see the bigger picture a bit better.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by AnErrupTion View Post

              The available GSP firmware blob means that projects such as Nouveau & Nova will be able to make use of it, and hopefully bring a usable NVIDIA experience on Linux using the Mesa3D stack. I'm quite excited for it.
              Which ofter breaks API

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              • #8
                The perf is so similar in every test, that it's obviously more or less the same code in both versions.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by duby229 View Post

                  Yeah, thank you for explaining that perspective. It was recently explained to me that because of how big the GSP is and how it is released per GPU it would blow up the size of linux-firmware, so it probably won't be upstreamed that way. But so long as distributions have a package for nVidia's GSP then I don't see a real big problem. Your perspective helps me see the bigger picture a bit better.
                  Linux firmware is already 2GB in size and that doesn't include the Sound Open Firmware project. There's no reason not to include NVIDIA blobs.

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                  • #10
                    Michael

                    Since it is not really clear in the article, which driver you have used.
                    Did you install the open modules and then toggled it via the kernel cmdline or did you install the closed source modules and handled it via the kernel cmdline?

                    Thanks for the benchmarks, looks really good. Moved to open as default since a while.

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