@arstechnica I have to track nvidia drivers for #inxi and #sgfxi in *nix. What's surprising is how long it's taking to make pre Turing/Ampere drivers legacy. That was supposed to come over a year ago. Legacy does not mean no support. Legacy drivers get several years more support. There's nothing new here.
The cut happens because Turing and newer have moved most of driver into firmware. #Linux kernel will use open source wrapper to talk to firmware.
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