drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/cipher

Nouveau NVKM Cipher Engine Subcomponent

An internal subcomponent of the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA GPU driver that handles the cipher/crypto engine block found on certain older NVIDIA GPUs. It is not a standalone driver but one piece of the larger Nouveau GPU stack.

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

100%

recommendation

This is not actually a driver directory; it is an internal engine module inside the Nouveau GPU driver tree. It lives or dies with Nouveau as a whole and shouldn't be evaluated as a separate piece of hardware support.

repository signals

2 files

133 source lines

1 commits, 5y

+5 / −6 lines added / removed, 5y

1 authors, 5y

monthly commits · 2021-04-21 → 2026-04-21 · 1 total · active in 1/61 months

sources

No sources cited.

codex reasoning notes (technical)

Not a driver directory: this is an internal Nouveau NVKM engine subcomponent (`engine/cipher`) inside the broader GPU driver, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.