Internal helper code inside the open-source Nouveau driver for NVIDIA GPUs that handles the NVENC hardware video encoding engine found on GeForce and Quadro cards. It is part of the NVKM core that the main Nouveau DRM driver builds on, not a separate driver users would load on its own.
This is not a standalone driver directory; it is a subcomponent of the Nouveau GPU driver covering the NVENC video encoding block. Any keep-or-remove decision belongs to the parent Nouveau driver rather than this subdirectory.
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Not a driver directory: contains nouveau NVKM internal NVENC engine support code, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver entry point.