NVIDIA has just said that starting from the r515 driver, it has released the Linux GPU kernel module as an open source version with GPL / MIT dual license Interested developers can go to NVIDIA open GPU kernel modules resource library on GitHub to obtain the source code of these kernel modules.
This version of open source driver aims to improve the use experience of NVIDIA GPU on Linux platform and the debugging and feedback of developers through closer integration with the operating system.
For the Linux distribution development team, the open source module greatly enhances the ease of use of the code. At the same time, by simplifying the development of NVIDIA GPU driver at home, it also improves the out of the box experience of end users.
Among the first supported distributions, canonical Ubuntu and SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions have packaged the open source driver of NVIDIA GPU.
Developers in need can use this to track the code path and view the interaction between kernel events and workload, so as to speed up the bottom debugging process.
In addition, for enterprise software developers, they can now seamlessly integrate drivers into the customized Linux kernel specially configured for their projects.
In the future, by referring to the relevant opinions and comments of the Linux end-user community, we also hope to further improve the quality and security of NVIDIA GPU open source drivers.
After that, NVIDIA will report to [GitHub] every time it releases a new version of the open source GPU driver( https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules ) Upload source code snapshot on the code hosting platform. As for the patches submitted by the community, they can also be integrated into future versions of drivers after being approved.
For developers interested in contributing, please also refer to the overview on NVIDIA's official guide, driver release schedule / lifecycle document. As for the first open source GPU kernel module (r515 version), it is used as CUDA toolkit 11.7 Part of the kit.
Of course, you can also go to NVIDIA's official website to get the "beta" beta version of the open source graphics driver (portal) 。