Red Hat Announces Nova, a Rust-Based GSP-Only Driver for NVIDIA GPUs

Posted by hanuca on Mar 25, 2024 1:48 AM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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Red Hat announced earlier this week that the company has started work on a new open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA GPUs written in Rust, called Nova.

Designed as the successor of the Nouveau open-source driver for GSP-firmware-based NVIDIA graphics cards, the Nova graphics driver is a GSP (GPU System Processor) only driver entirely written in the Rust programming language and it aims to be a lot more simple and easy to maintain than Nouveau while benefiting from more memory safety offered by Rust.

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