With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs…
I doubt very much it’s about whether they are allowed too or not. They’re the ones at the top of the hardware supply chain, designing their own chips and having them fabricated. It’s them telling other companies, like Gigabyte and EVGA, what they are allowed or not allowed to do.
Hmdi 2.1 and the hdmi consortium prevented them from releasing code. It wasn’t even proprietary, just based on a licensed implementation from what I understood.
So 20-series onwards.
And 16xx
Yep! My pre-built 1660 super i got years ago is still chugging along amazingly as a streaming device for my steam deck.
Yes. Everything older is unsupported in terms of the new Linux stuff anymore. Planned obsolescence yk?
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I doubt very much it’s about whether they are allowed too or not. They’re the ones at the top of the hardware supply chain, designing their own chips and having them fabricated. It’s them telling other companies, like Gigabyte and EVGA, what they are allowed or not allowed to do.
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Hmdi 2.1 and the hdmi consortium prevented them from releasing code. It wasn’t even proprietary, just based on a licensed implementation from what I understood.
Well their proprietary driver works fine for older hardware.