Internal scaffolding code shared across the Nouveau driver, which is the open-source Linux graphics driver for NVIDIA GPUs. This subtree provides common infrastructure used by the rest of NVKM rather than controlling any hardware on its own.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is an internal core library inside the Nouveau NVIDIA GPU driver that other Nouveau components build on top of. It only makes sense as part of the larger Nouveau tree and should not be evaluated as a standalone driver.
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Not a driver directory: nvkm/core is an internal Nouveau/NVKM core support library subtree, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.