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The "Nova" driver for NVIDIA chipsets

The "Nova" driver for NVIDIA chipsets

Posted Apr 2, 2024 15:42 UTC (Tue) by ssokolow (guest, #94568)
In reply to: The "Nova" driver for NVIDIA chipsets by bluca
Parent article: The "Nova" driver for NVIDIA chipsets

It depends on who you are and what you're doing with them.

AMD has out-of-tree kernel drivers, but I bought nVidia because CUDA Just Works™ on consumer-grade cards with the tooling I want to use, I've only ever needed to upgrade off the Canonical-picked nVidia drivers three times in the last 20 years (one time because the GTX750 was too new for them), and I *CAN* upgrade off the Canonical-picked drivers without upgrading my whole kernel.

By contrast, when I reinstalled my mother's laptop with onboard AMD graphics, I had to switch her from the HWE kernel (6.5.x) to the regular generic kernel (5.x) because the AMD drivers were failing with UBSAN errors in the kernel log.


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The "Nova" driver for NVIDIA chipsets

Posted Apr 7, 2024 14:17 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> the AMD drivers were failing with UBSAN errors in the kernel log.

UBSan was enabled in release builds/binaries? By whom? AFAIK, that is neither recommended nor safe to do.


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