Very nice they are doing that, but you know what would be a real altruism move ? Open up the source for Nvidia Chips so projects like OpenBSD and the other BSDs can run on hardware from Nvidia.
Last I checked they already had monopoly evoking shares of that market. Like 80+ or 90+ percent
It would be nice if everyone writing UNIX-like drivers gave away their source code, but then the books wouldn't balance. It's a tale that's half a century old now.
This is happening, albeit slowly, fwiw. Pytorch has ROCm support, but not great. AMD did win the exascale machine contracts and have custom hardware in the machines that are built. It does look like they've been using those contracts to invest more into computational sciences/ML. I can only hope that they continue at the pace they have in the consumer market. Competition between AMD and Nvidia (and hopefully Intel -- a pipe dream) can only be beneficial to us in the ML community.
Coming up on a year since they've had source code available.
Seems only for a specific chip rev, does nothing for older revs.
Also since it is a module, I presume just for Linux, does nothing for OpenBSD (especially) and probably do nothing for NetBSD. FYI, OpenBSD does not support kernel modules like Linux does.
Also, it supports everything Turing onwards, which, while not ideal, does cover all the hardware they've made in the past 4.5 years.