Re: What Does Nvidia Do With Their Billions?

Le 30-05-2025, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> a écrit :

They certainly don't produce patches for their GNU/Linux drivers.
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Nvidia doesn't build with kernel 6.15 but the community, and not
Nvidia, has produced a patch:
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<https://github.com/rpmfusion/nvidia-kmod/blob/master/Workaround-nv_vm_flags_-calling-GPL-only-code.patch>
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Nvidia is supposedly making a killing with their hoaky AI chips
so why can't they invest a few millionths of a percent of that loot
to FOSS?

I know you can't learn anything, but I'll try anyway. The GPU used by AI
are used by companies who don't look for fancy bleeding edge but who
look for stability. So, they aren't running new good Linux versions but
they are running well known old kernels. So they don't need new drivers
to be available in the last kernel soon. They need the drivers to be
available in the stable distros. And it's what nvidia is doing. So, if I
won't look for nvidia on my personal computer, I know that it's well
supported for companies servers.

So, if you want to fight nvidia because they aren't providing bleeding
edge drivers for personal computers, go for it. But for the AI companies,
they do what they are expected to. Stop fighting things you don't
understand.

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