On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 19:03 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 02:16:01PM +0100, Ian Campbell 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. > > So like the microcode? ;)
Not really, this is literal host libFOO.so type stuff, completely normal libraries and tools like a "compiler". So "glibc" and "gcc" is probably the right analogy. There might well be firmware blobs too but I wasn't talking about those. Ian.
