Nova Driver Continues Progressing With Long-Term Goal For Official NVIDIA Linux Use

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Executive Summary

NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard and Red Hat's Danilo Krummrich presented at this week's LPC2026 conference in Prague on the open-source and upstream Nova driver stack that continues forming as a Rust-based open-source NVIDIA Linux kernel driver...

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