drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/timer

Nouveau NVKM Timer Subdevice Helper

An internal helper component inside the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA GPU driver. It provides timing services that other parts of Nouveau use when talking to NVIDIA graphics chips, rather than driving any hardware on its own.

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This is not actually a standalone driver directory; it is one of many internal building blocks of the Nouveau NVIDIA GPU driver (the NVKM core), specifically the timer subcomponent used by the rest of Nouveau. It cannot be evaluated for keep-or-remove independently of Nouveau as a whole.

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codex reasoning notes (technical)

Not a driver directory: nvkm timer subdev is an internal nouveau DRM helper/subdevice component, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.