Internal voltage-management helper code inside the Nouveau driver stack for NVIDIA GPUs. It handles reading and programming the GPU core voltage regulators as part of power and clock management on supported GeForce and Quadro cards, but it is not a standalone driver — it is a building block used by the broader Nouveau DRM driver.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is an internal subcomponent of Nouveau's NVKM hardware abstraction layer that handles GPU voltage control. It has no independent lifecycle and ships as part of the larger Nouveau driver for NVIDIA graphics cards, so it should not be evaluated for keep-or-remove decisions on its own.
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Not a driver directory: internal nouveau NVKM voltage-management subdevice/helper code, not a kernel-bound hardware driver entry-point directory.