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		bleepblorp on Oct 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10... GPU drivers are essentially operating systems for the GPU.

extropy on Oct 11, 2020 | [–]

And also ~real time compilers for any user code (shaders, etc) that will be running on the GPU.

monocasa on Oct 11, 2020 | [–]

The compiler isn't in the kernel though. That's in the user space half.

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