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Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver (www.phoronix.com)
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This is the best summary I could come up with:

Following last year Nouveau receiving support for running with the NVIDIA GSP firmware and initial GeForce RTX 40 series accelerated support, Ben Skeggs of Red Hat unexpectedly resigned as the Nouveau kernel driver maintainer.

I'm not sure what is more surprising that he is at the green giant or that he's able to continue working on the Nouveau driver in an official capacity.

After months of being absent in Nouveau driver development happenings, last night he posted a set of 156 patches.

This massive patch series is a follow-up to the Nouveau GSP firmware enablement work and cleans up the code.

The focus on the series is replacing the ioctl-like interface between the NVKM and the Nouveau DRM driver to now leverage more direct calls for reducing the driver overhead and call chain complexity.

And this big patch series is submitted from his new NVIDIA work email address:

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