Making musl and proprietary NVIDIA drivers work together
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A developer documents making NVIDIA's proprietary Linux drivers, which are built against glibc, run on musl-based distributions such as Chimera Linux. The work covers switching to GLVND for vendor-neutral OpenGL dispatch, patching the gcompat shim to supply missing glibc symbols, and using patchelf to sanitize driver libraries, with the remaining…