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{{Anchor|radeon|/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon}}Radeon: Update comparison between AMD and Nvidia Opensource support to reflect recent major changes in Nvidia policy and initiative.
{{anchor|History of nouveau}}Nvidia: Update section to reflect Nvidia's new open source initiatives for its GPU drivers on new GPUs
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Nvidia's Unified Memory driver (nvidia-uvm.ko), which implements memory management for Pascal and Volta GPUs on Linux, is MIT licensed. The source code is available in the Nvidia Linux driver downloads on systems that support nvidia-uvm.ko.
 
In May 2022 Nvidia Announced a new initiative and policy to open source its [[GPU]] [[Loadable Kernel Module]]s with dual [[GPL]]/[[MIT license]], but only new models at [[Software_release_life_cycle#Alpha]] quality.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/|title=NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules |date=2022-05-19 |access-date=2022-06-07}}</ref>
 
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