Internal helper code inside the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA GPU driver that handles the PRIVRING block, the on-chip register access fabric NVIDIA GPUs use to route privileged register reads and writes between engines. It is not a standalone driver; it is a building block used by the larger Nouveau stack.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is a small internal subcomponent of the Nouveau NVIDIA GPU driver that manages the GPU's internal privileged register ring. It only makes sense as part of Nouveau as a whole and shouldn't be evaluated for keep/remove on its own.
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Not a driver directory: internal nouveau nvkm subdevice/helper code for the PRIVRING engine, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.