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		10000truths on March 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open-source drivers according to Habana Or they could pull an NVidia, and dedicate a whole in-house kernel team to maintaining an out-of-tree kernel module.

my123 on March 31, 2022 [–]

For NVIDIA? More than one.

The Tegra stack uses a totally separate out-of-tree but GPLv2 kernel module (which also works on some dGPU SKUs). It's available at https://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/r/gitweb?p=linux-nvgpu.git;a=sum...

And then there's the partially closed kernel module stack, which is a different code base...

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