• sunzu
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    144 months ago

    How is it different. Wouldn’t just be the same software with source code available?

      • sunzu
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        64 months ago

        Is there a reason to reinvent the wheel?

        • @[email protected]
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          294 months ago

          Usually this is done for licensing reasons. They probably don’t want the old code caught up in the open license they’re shipping the new driver under.

          My understanding is that the new open driver separates proprietary code into a black box binary blob that isn’t distributed under an open source license. I’m guessing that they’ve been very careful not to include anything they want to keep closed into the new open driver, whereas the old driver wasn’t written with this separation in mind.

          • sunzu
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            64 months ago

            I was wondering about what they were doing with their “secret sauce”, thanks for explaining.

        • @[email protected]
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          34 months ago

          Some of it probably comes from other companies that are unable or unwilling to relicense it even if Nvidia wanted to