Internal component of the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA GPU driver that handles GPU memory management — specifically programming the MMU hardware on NVIDIA cards so the GPU can translate virtual addresses and access system and video memory. It is part of NVKM, the low-level hardware abstraction layer inside Nouveau, not a separately loadable driver.
This is not actually a standalone driver directory; it is an internal subsystem of the Nouveau NVIDIA GPU driver that manages GPU virtual memory. It has no independent module entry point and lives or dies with the rest of Nouveau, so it cannot be evaluated for keep/remove on its own.
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Not a driver directory: internal nouveau NVKM MMU subdevice implementation, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver entrypoint