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Nouveau Driver Achieves HDMI Fixed Rate Link Support for NVIDIA GPUs

The open-source Nouveau graphics driver on Linux has achieved support for HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) with NVIDIA GPUs. This development provides a key feature of the HDMI 2.1 specification to NVIDIA u...

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Phoronix Benchmarks Linux 7.0 Nouveau/NVK Performance Against NVIDIA Driver

Phoronix recently published a new round of benchmarks evaluating the performance of the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack. The testing utilized the Nouveau kernel driver, the Mesa NVK Vulkan...

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NVIDIA Posts Open-Source Nouveau GSP Driver Support for GA100 GPU

NVIDIA has provided open-source contributions this week to enhance the existing Nouveau kernel driver. The posted patches aim to bring up support for the NVIDIA GA100 GPU, leveraging the GPU System Pr...

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Linux 7.0 Kernel Fixes Nouveau Large Pages for NVK Performance

The forthcoming Linux 7.0 kernel is expected to resolve bugs preventing the Mesa NVK driver from utilizing large page support and compression within the Nouveau kernel driver. This functionality, whic...

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