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NVIDIA 560 Linux Graphics Driver to Fully Adopt Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

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9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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NVIDIA announced their plans to fully transition to the open-source GPU kernel modules with the upcoming NVIDIA 560 graphics driver for Linux-based operating systems.

It’s been two years since NVIDIA released the first Linux graphics driver with open-source GPU kernel modules, which will eventually replace the proprietary, closed-source driver when these mature.

During this time, the NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules received new features like HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management) support, confidential computing, coherent memory architectures of NVIDIA’s Grace platforms, and others, making it ready for the masses.

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