On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 13:09 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:35:24PM +0000, Lumin wrote: > > (3) CUDA Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN)[4] is NVIDIA's > > **PROPRIETARY**, > > stacked on CUDA, and requires NVIDIA GPU exclusively. > > so what? Debian runs on non-free CPUs too, how is this any different?
AIUI there is a pile of non-free libraries/tools on the host side too, which is somewhat akin to a non-free device driver. Presumably someone could (and for all I know is) build a Nouveau style replacement that set of host libraries... Ian.