NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The source release of NVIDIA's open Linux GPU kernel modules, released per driver version and built with make. It must be paired with matching GSP firmware and NVIDIA user-space driver components.

Use cases

• build NVIDIA GPU kernel modules from source for Linux
• cross-compile NVIDIA kernel modules for aarch64
• install open kernel modules alongside the NVIDIA .run driver with --no-kernel-modules
• debug NVIDIA kernel module issues with DEBUG builds
• contribute fixes to NVIDIA's open GPU driver

When to choose

• you need NVIDIA GPU drivers on Linux kernels 4.15+ and want the open-source kernel module variant
• you're packaging NVIDIA drivers for a distro or building for non-standard kernels
• you need to patch or debug the kernel module source

When to avoid

• you want a fully community-driven driver with independent development history - releases are snapshots of NVIDIA's shared codebase
• you need Turing or older GPUs, which are better served by the proprietary modules
• you want a simple driver install without building from source

Facets

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developer-tools operating-systems hardware gpu-computing c gpu-driver kernel-modules nvidia gsp-firmware open-source-driver linux

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