{"id":581011,"date":"2026-08-11T03:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581011\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T03:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:32:09","slug":"open-source-nvidia-nova-driver-sees-more-functionality-for-linux-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-Source NVIDIA &#8220;Nova&#8221; Driver Sees More Functionality For Linux 7.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LINUX KERNEL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/assets\/categories\/linuxkernel.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nSent to DRM-Next this week was the DRM Rust core and driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window. There continues to be a lot of DRM core infrastructure work happening for Rust integration plus two leading Rust DRM drivers of Nova for open-source NVIDIA GPU support as the successor to Nouveau and then Tyr as the in-development Arm Mali driver.<\/p>\n<p>The DRM Rust code for Linux 7.3 continues to contain a lot of infrastructure work around I\/O, a SysMem back-end for shared system memory with volatile access, and RegistrationData and RegistrationGuard to capture device lifetime-annotated resources.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>On the Nova driver side for next-gen open-source NVIDIA kernel driver support there are various improvements around consolidating the GPU System Processor (GSP) boot process, vGPU boot support added, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/NVIDIA-Nova-Driver-TLV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TLV firmware image format support<\/a>, and various improvements to the NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell support code. Plus various other fixes and smaller improvements to that open-source Rust kernel graphics driver being heavily invested in by NVIDIA.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786419129_29_image.webp\" alt=\"NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics cards\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/phoronix\/status\/2057787396255592763\" rel=\"nofollow\">Earlier this summer when visiting NVIDIA<\/a> there were some very intriguing answers when I asked various NVIDIA reps regarding Nova. Sadly, the official written remarks and follow-ups around the Nova driver remarks have yet to arrive. But I will say Nova is definitely something to pay attention to and as seen from the public mailing lists there continues to be significant investments by NVIDIA engineers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Tyr driver for modern Arm Mali kernel driver support has seen firmware loading and MCU boot improvements with this new code for Linux 7.3.&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lore.kernel.org\/rust-for-linux\/DKJQQUOS0PVO.3JPR3MYK4PDVZ@kernel.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This pull request<\/a> lays out all the interesting Rust DRM changes for Linux 7.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sent to DRM-Next this week was the DRM Rust core and driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78437,85,46,78436,78434,78433,78440,78438,78435,78439,78432,78443,125,78441,78442],"class_list":["post-581011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-desktop-linux","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-linux-benchmarking","tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","tag-linux-hardware-reviews","tag-linux-how-to","tag-linux-performance","tag-linux-server-benchmarks","tag-open-source-graphics","tag-phoronix","tag-phoronix-test-suite","tag-technology","tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","tag-ubuntu-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}