NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver
NVIDIA is making progress on the open-source Nova driver for its Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. The latest version of the driver, v12, includes various improvements and is currently under review. The company continues to invest significantly in this project as it approaches completion.
- ▪The open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors.
- ▪The Nova driver is being developed in Rust and is in its 12th iteration for Hopper and Blackwell enablement.
- ▪NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard has sent out patches that include code improvements and changes related to the Foundation Security Processor.
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NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver Written by Michael Larabel in NVIDIA on 3 June 2026 at 06:26 AM EDT. Add A Comment While the upstream, open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors with the GPU System Processor (GSP) code path, the bring-up of the Rust-written Nova driver remains ongoing. Out this week is the 12th iteration of the Hopper and Blackwell enablement for this future open-source NVIDIA Linux driver. It's looking like the Hopper and Blackwell enablement work could soon be wrapping up for the Nova driver. NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard sent out the v12 patches on Monday that re-base against drm-rust-next and make various Rust code improvements.
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