Peter personally drives NVIDIA to commit, to Google, that it will support CIQ-built RLC on NVIDIA hardware

Situation

At the 10/22 GDC roadmap meeting Google disclosed NVIDIA had put in writing that Google must reproduce NVIDIA-hardware bugs on RHEL before NVIDIA will look at them. Peter took it on personally: called Scott Hara (NVIDIA) that evening - NVIDIA engineering to align, a three-way NDA, and a statement to Google that NVIDIA will work with both CIQ and Google; emailed Tissa (Google) and shaped Google question to include joint support given CIQ custom kernel work for Google; forwarded to Scott asking for a positive written response; asked Greg to be ready to make the case to NVIDIA. In the same meeting he told Google CIQ can support their roadmap for the next year line item by line item, in response to Google assembling its own senior kernel team.

Reasoning

A reproduce-on-RHEL-first clause tells Google that CIQ RLC on NVIDIA hardware is unsupported, which kills the GB200/GB300/Vera Rubin onboarding Google wants; it cannot wait for normal channels. Only NVIDIA can fix it credibly, in writing, to Google, with CIQ positioned as the party making it happen. With Google hiring its own kernel team, any doubt about CIQ supportability feeds a build-it-ourselves decision. Greg is held in reserve as closer.

Additional Context

Peter confirmed the hypothesis as presented.

Observed Evidence

Slack 10/22-23, emails to Tissa and Scott Hara 10/23, GDC roadmap meeting reference; roadmap line-by-line statement.

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