NVIDIA Prepares New Driver Era for "Rubin" GPUs in 2026
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Nvidia Prepares an Evolution of Its Drivers for Rubin and This Will Concern All Future Architectures
Rubin's support will require an evolution at the software level, NVIDIA has indeed rethought its drivers and the evolution has already begun, even if Rubin only plans to be available in 2026, an evolution of its drivers for Rubin and this will concern all future architectures! "NVIDIA GPUs are moving away from using NV_PMC_BOOT_0 to contain architecture and revision details, and will instead use NV_PMC_BOOT_42 in the future. NV_PMC_BOOT_0 will b…
NVIDIA Prepares New Driver Era for "Rubin" GPUs in 2026
NVIDIA appears to be gearing up for software support for "Rubin", the architecture expected to succeed "Blackwell", after a set of driver patches introduced a new identification register called BOOT_42. The initial patches landed on public mailing lists late on a Friday and include a change titled for next-generation GPUs. In the patch cover letter, NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard explains that architecture and revision metadata will transition fro…
It wasn't long ago that the US company NVIDIA introduced and launched its Blackwell GPUs. Now, preparations are already underway for the next NVIDIA architecture to ensure a smooth launch for Linux users. Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports. The new architecture is called "Ruby." With a […] Source
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