NVIDIA and nouveau

Posted Oct 7, 2022 16:29 UTC (Fri) by wsy (subscriber, #121706)
Parent article: NVIDIA and nouveau

The firmware itself may be a complete linux system image. I think that's a trend of hardware industry.

Posted Oct 7, 2022 22:36 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

That would just be asking for some…interesting GPLv2 source code requests, would it not?

Posted Oct 8, 2022 18:47 UTC (Sat) by wsy (subscriber, #121706) [Link] (1 responses)

Then you get a huge outdated tar ball without build script or tool chain.

Posted Oct 9, 2022 11:37 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Well, that'd be a vast improvement at least. But I don't think Nvidia would be so careless to allow such a "cheap shot" at their "crown jewels".

Posted Oct 11, 2022 10:37 UTC (Tue) by xnox (guest, #63320) [Link] (1 responses)

Upon basic inspection it appears to be RISC-V machine code. Rather than Linux level application code.

Posted Oct 11, 2022 14:17 UTC (Tue) by wsy (subscriber, #121706) [Link]

Their network accelerator runs its own linux system. *

It is possible their GPU goes the same route in the future.