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Nouveau Driver To Support Larger Pages & Compression Support With Linux 6.19 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@no.lastname.nz to c/linux@programming.dev

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While the "Nova" driver continues to be developed as a modern Rust-written, open-source and in-kernel NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux, for the time being Nouveau is what's working for end-users for those wanting a mainline open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for gaming and other workloads. With Linux 6.19 the Nouveau driver is picking up support for handling larger pages as well as compression support.

Sent out today was the latest round of drm-misc-next updates intended for Linux 6.19. Standing out there on the Nouveau side is enabling support for larger pages and compression support.

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