I think what was meant is that it may be possible to perform the “setting up actions” of the following repositories as part of your own Dockerfiles in your app containers:
- https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker
- https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-runtime
- https://github.com/NVIDIA/libnvidia-container
When we look at the README files and the source code of those repos, we see that they run scripts and commands that automate a number of configuration options of app containers. In theory, even if Nvidia had included some hardware configuration code in their own implementation of Docker or surrounding components (like runc), for as long as it is open source, it would be possible to identify and isolate the code, place it in separate executables and run that inside privileged app containers of yours on balenaOS. Having said that, there’s certainly a fair amount of work to achieve it.