drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios

Nouveau NVKM VBIOS Parsing Subcomponent

Internal support code within the open-source Nouveau driver for NVIDIA GPUs that reads and interprets the on-card VBIOS data tables. It provides board configuration information (clocks, memory parameters, output routing) to the rest of the Nouveau stack rather than driving any hardware on its own.

not-a-driver conf=1.00 deploy=none replacement=none subsystem=gpu category=not-a-driver

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This is not actually a driver directory; it is an internal helper layer inside the Nouveau driver that parses the video BIOS (VBIOS) tables shipped on NVIDIA GPUs so the rest of Nouveau can discover clocks, memory timings, display connectors, and similar board-specific data. It has no independent existence outside Nouveau and isn't separately loadable.

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monthly commits · 2021-04-21 → 2026-04-21 · 12 total · active in 10/61 months

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codex reasoning notes (technical)

Not a driver directory: internal nouveau NVKM BIOS subdevice support code within the drm/nouveau driver, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.