This is the best summary I could come up with:

If the name doesn’t ring a bell, Arthur Huillet started off more than one decade ago contributing to the Nouveau driver stack…

The merge request is for implementing conservative rasterization support for all NVIDIA GPUs with the NVK driver.

This aligns with activity I’ve been seeing on the mailing lists as well of increased NVIDIA involvement and hearing other things too.

Though the extent of NVIDIA’s plans around open-source Linux driver support isn’t publicly clear.

This will likely all be complementary to their existing and mature binary driver stack: it’s unlikely to see them open up their proprietary user-space components, especially around the walled garden of CUDA, but interesting to see the moves they are making.

AMD has been enjoying much success over the years on Linux thanks to their first-rate open-source driver support and developed a strong following in that regard.

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