CUDA computations on a musl Gentoo Linux host, is it possible?
I always thought that Nvidia was a lost cause on Linux, especially on a musl Gentoo Linux system. Yet I found that in the particular use case of CUDA computation not all is hopeless. As of writing this we still require glibc for user space Nvidia drivers, but these can be nicely tucked away in a glibc chroot. This glibc requirement apparently leads people to believe that the Nvidia kernel modules also require glibc (see for example the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers gentoo ebuild), but this is plainly incorrect. The Nvidia kernel modules are independent of a C library and can thus also be build on musl systems.