I think it’s good , but doesn’t change too much unless you’re a kernel implementer.
They’ve been busy moving the vast amount of the bits into the GPU firmware (not uncommon, this is how Apple and some others do it too).
I think the FOSS crowd made a bigger deal of it than it was because it appealed to their sensibilities.
The best new OSS-ish stuff from NVidia is their research, and things backing that research. They’ve released a lot of their nerf tech in the wild and Warp (a differential Python to CUDA transpiler) which are very cool.
Not the person you're replying to, but those drivers are essentially just the communication bridge between the kernel and the "real" driver, which is mostly in the closed-source firmware blob. They're also woefully incomplete.
They’ve been busy moving the vast amount of the bits into the GPU firmware (not uncommon, this is how Apple and some others do it too).
I think the FOSS crowd made a bigger deal of it than it was because it appealed to their sensibilities.
The best new OSS-ish stuff from NVidia is their research, and things backing that research. They’ve released a lot of their nerf tech in the wild and Warp (a differential Python to CUDA transpiler) which are very cool.