NVIDIA has recently announced they are open-sourcing (a variant of) their GPU Linux kernel driver. They are not, however, open-sourcing the user-mode driver libraries (e.g. libcuda.so).
It's a gradual process and not all GPUs are supported initially, but regardless of these details: Is there some way that developers of user-space code can leverage this open-sourcing? Or is it only interesting/useful for kernel developers?
What I would personally love to be able to do is avoid having to make libcuda calls to get the current context. If that piece of information were somehow readable now from userspace, that could be neat. Of course that's just wishful thinking on my part - I don't know how to check what the driver directly "exposes" - if anything.
