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Making musl and proprietary NVIDIA drivers work together

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

Chimera Linux describes efforts to run proprietary NVIDIA drivers on musl-based systems, detailing the challenges and a multi-pronged workaround involving GLVND, gcompat, and patching via patchelf. The writeup covers handling of dynamic linking, TLS, and relocation issues (notably ifunc and TLS-related problems) to enable NVIDIA driver support on musl.

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