The Linux Foundation hopes that the NVIDIA graphics card driver is open-source

Article title: The Linux Foundation hopes that the NVIDIA graphics card driver is open-source. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

According to a statement issued by the Linux Foundation, it is hoped that the graphics card can be an open-source driver. Because non-open-source drivers may make Linux users feel that the system is not stable enough.

The statement published on Monday did not indicate the specific vendor, but James Bottomley, chairman of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Committee, pointed out in a telephone interview that they referred to the vendor NVIDIA. "The problem I mainly want to point out is that NVIDIA provides binary drivers itself (binary-only). In fact, few companies insist on using binary drivers," which is basically not open-source.

Bottomley believes: "This type of driver is the main cause of kernel crash, or make the Linux system feel unstable ."

However, NVIDIA said that their Linux driver is a high-quality driver. "NVIDIA has long supported Linux and won praise from the Linux community for its driving quality ", its binary drive policy is only "NVIDIA wants to protect its software and hardware intellectual property rights". "if open source makes more sense, we will try to make the source code public ".

Currently, Intel is an advocate of open-source drivers in Linux, while ATI is also an open-source driver. However, there are some problems with the FireGL driver. Bottomley said that these situations basically reflect the fact that in today's PC technology, graphics technology is still the most complex and difficult part.