An internal building block of the Nouveau driver for NVIDIA GPUs that handles the legacy MPEG decode engine present on older GeForce chips. It is not a standalone driver, just one piece of the larger Nouveau graphics stack.
This is not a driver directory in its own right; it is an internal source subdirectory of the Nouveau NVKM core that implements support for the MPEG hardware engine found on older NVIDIA GPUs. Lifecycle decisions belong to the Nouveau driver as a whole, not to this subfolder.
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Not a driver directory: internal `nvkm` nouveau MPEG engine subcomponent, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.