Comment by RussianCow
6 years ago
Nvidia has a proprietary Linux driver that works just fine for GPGPU purposes. But because it's not GPLed, it will never be mainlined into the kernel, so you have to install it separately. This is in contrast to AMD GPUs, for which the driver lives in the Linux kernel itself.
Critically, Nvidia has a GPL'd shim. In the kernel code, which lets them keep a stable ABI. The kind of shim Linus isn't interested in for ZFS.