Comment by kmeisthax
3 years ago
> No they don't. The Linux kernel ABI doesn't really ever break. Any open-source driver shouldn't require any knowledge of internals from user-space.
[laughs in Nvidia]
3 years ago
> No they don't. The Linux kernel ABI doesn't really ever break. Any open-source driver shouldn't require any knowledge of internals from user-space.
[laughs in Nvidia]
NVIDIA is not an open-source driver [1], and if you look in your dmesg logs, your kernel will complain about how it's tainted. That doesn't change the truth value about what I said about 'open-source' drivers.
[1] I think this may have changed very very recently.