Internal building block of Nouveau, the open-source Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs. The folder collects the per-engine code (graphics, copy, video decode, etc.) used by the NVKM hardware abstraction layer rather than being a driver users load on its own.
This is not a standalone driver. It is an internal subdirectory of the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA GPU driver, holding the engine-specific code (such as graphics, copy, and video engines) that the larger Nouveau driver builds against. It has no independent lifecycle and lives or dies with Nouveau as a whole.
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codex reasoning notes (technical)
Not a driver directory: internal nouveau NVKM engine subcomponent directory, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver entry-point.