NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules on Hacker News

…(there are similar NVReg keys that didn't work well on my card, however could be useful on others: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/... ) the other 50MiB is nvidia kernel module patching, 39 of which was a worst…

comment by locallmfan · 2026-07-14 · in Reducing Nvidia reserved VRAM from 380 MiB to 31 MiB via kernel module patching

It is indeed the explanation: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/pull/1014

comment by i_am_proteus · 2026-01-25 · in Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days

…internally for the issue matches to the day the number of days the driver would stay up. 1: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/971...

comment by foota · 2026-01-25 · in Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days

…by current nVidia Linux drivers - the drivers only offer ABGR2101010 and XBGR2101010 (See: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/... ). 2. Common browsers like Chrome and Firefox has no real support for HDR video…

comment by bitanarch · 2026-01-01 · in Linux is good now

…on the open Nvidia driver on Wayland. Wait I thought this was all supposed to be the future? 0. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/644 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1due6ni/hardware...

comment by roryrjb · 2025-12-17 · in VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO

…a hardware change on their side (the GSP was a new bit of hardware added in Turing Nvidia GPUs). 1. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by robhlt · 2025-12-10 · in Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

That’s an ancient article - Nvidia have since open sourced their kernel mode drivers - https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules Yes the user mode side is still closed, but that was never really the issue.

comment by bpye · 2025-08-27 · in Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward

…code itself is cited as MIT, however it has a "when it becomes a Linux .ko it becomes GPLv2" clause https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.7... and they do go out of their way to say "lol, needs binary blobs"…

comment by mdaniel · 2025-08-27 · in Framework Laptop 16

…doesn't. You need to use closed-source drivers with Nvidia in practice. Is that what this is? https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by globnomulous · 2025-02-28 · in AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards

…flawlessly from day 1. [0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Contributions-2010s-Ker... [1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by tostiheld · 2025-02-17 · in I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs

…in spark. The driver is mostly c, and none of the open source repos are identified as spark. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules https://github.com/NVIDIA/

comment by 8organicbits · 2025-02-14 · in Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” (2022)

Some of it is open source: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by ryao · 2025-01-15 · in The Missing Nvidia GPU Glossary

…Wayland+nvidia works quite well now, especially after they added explicit sync support. 1. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/

comment by robhlt · 2025-01-07 · in Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

All `g_bindata_k*.c` files are essentially blobs with no source provided: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/tree/main/...

comment by svlasov · 2024-07-19 · in NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules

…in the NVIDIA .run installation package, the OS-agnostic component is provided as a binary: [0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by sillywalk · 2024-07-17 · in NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules

I also love that it can be done with just a few code line changes: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/commit/1f4...

comment by tanelpoder · 2024-04-12 · in Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P

…shim that wrap firmware blobs[1] in which the functionality you really care about is contained. [0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/discussion... [1] https://github.com/geohot/7900xtx/

comment by noch · 2024-04-03 · in AMD ROCm Going Open-Source: Will Include Software and Hardware Documentation

…even though AMDs kernel drivers are in tree). They are both needed to make a cohesive driver. [1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by nan60 · 2024-03-21 · in Red Hat to author new Linux driver for Nvidia GPUs in Rust

…by magic going on in the firmware, so the actual driver is relatively simple and is open source: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by porphyra · 2024-03-21 · in Red Hat to author new Linux driver for Nvidia GPUs in Rust

They are, they released an open driver and it’s being upstreamed into the kernel. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules People still search for reasons to shit on it because they don’t like the company in general and want to…

comment by paulmd · 2023-12-02 · in A Nouveau graphics driver update

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc...

comment by SushiHippie · 2023-11-26 · in Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

New drivers are MIT/GPL2 dual-licensed: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by NavinF · 2023-09-05 · in ZFS for Dummies

That's only for a small subset of their more recent GPUs, as you can see here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#compatible... Also it's not the same codebase as their proprietary driver, it is inferior in performance for…

comment by rany_ · 2023-08-30 · in Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules

I thought the nvidia kernel driver is open sourced? https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules It says it's dual licensed MIT/GPL2

comment by nialv7 · 2023-08-30 · in Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules

…doubt they're going to do that. They already have, but their open modules only work on newer cards. https://github.com/nvidia/open-gpu-kernel-modules .

comment by kaladin-jasnah · 2023-08-30 · in Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules

…threads with actual issues but you've listed none. I'm the person who filed this https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/511 and it affects countless people, mainly Turing users. I know how none other than kernel hackers _

comment by itvision · 2023-07-04 · in AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare

…From the repo readme[1], "GeForce and Workstation support is still considered alpha-quality." [1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by opencl · 2023-06-27 · in Blender 3.6 LTS Released

They did[0], for GPU models where they moved all the proprietary parts into the firmware. [0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#user-conte...

comment by the8472 · 2023-04-13 · in Nvidia RTX Remix Runtime Open Source Available Now

Some more discussion and clarifications about this at https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/discussion...

comment by sherincall · 2022-10-06 · in NVIDIA and nouveau

…to. Though surely the kernel drivers are useful for more than just communicating with nouveau? [0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

comment by mardifoufs · 2022-09-12 · in Framework Laptop 2.5Gbps Ethernet Expansion Card

…for a brighter future, but still I will do my damned best to never buy an nvidia product again. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/161 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2166…

comment by ledgerdev · 2022-07-27 · in RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative

…driver into firmware (the "GPU system processor") - and that firmware is closed. Stated [here]( https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/19#... ). And what about the host-side library for interacting with the driver? And…

comment by einpoklum · 2022-07-06 · in How CUDA Programming Works

…source movement. Indeed, nVidia open sourced the kernel portion of their drivers a few weeks ago. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules This is, at least for now, a somewhat limited release (only supports Turing and newer, only…

comment by formerly_proven · 2022-06-19 · in How we wound up with Linux's kernel mode setting ('KMS')

You're looking at the wrong thing. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/tree/main/... contains the largest parts of the driver.

comment by puffoflogic · 2022-05-11 · in Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#supported-... "Currently, the kernel modules can be built for x86_64 or aarch64 ."

comment by adolph · 2022-05-11 · in Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

…the driver itself is still a binary blob. AMD probably does the same? Correct me if I'm wrong. [1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/tree/main/...

comment by zekrioca · 2022-05-11 · in Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules