nvidia.ko
The binary Linux kernel module at the core of the NVIDIA GPU drivers, which talks directly to the GPU.
nvidia.ko is a binary kernel module at the core of the NVIDIA GPU drivers for Linux.
Like any kernel module, it runs in privileged mode and talks directly to hardware on behalf of user programs. Here, the hardware is the GPU.
The Linux Open GPU Kernel Module is open source.
Related#
- NVIDIA GPU Drivers — the driver stack this module anchors
- libcuda.so — the userspace driver library above it