Internal interface code used by the Nouveau driver stack to talk to NVIDIA GPUs. It is a shared support layer for the rest of Nouveau, not a driver bound to any hardware on its own.
This is not a standalone driver directory; it is the NVIF (Nouveau interface) helper code that the open-source NVIDIA GPU driver uses internally to communicate between its components. It only makes sense as part of the broader Nouveau subsystem and is not separately removable.
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Not a driver directory: contains Nouveau NVIF internal interface/support code, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.