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Yeah, the open drivers don't matter a whole lot. It just loads the closed source proprietary blob into the gpu. It's a step in the right direction but can be ve
by Heston 4y ago
Yeah, the open drivers don't matter a whole lot. It just loads the closed source proprietary blob into the gpu. It's a step in the right direction but can be very misleading.
- pabs3 4y agoThe worst part is when those blobs are signed, then you can't reverse engineer them and replace them with open firmware.
- snvzz 4y agoThis is one of many ways by which NVIDIA actively sabotages the open source driver effort. They were catching up at some point, and NVIDIA started doing that.
- pabs3 4y agoThe good news is that with the new open Linux kernel drivers from NVIDIA, Nouveau folks will be able to use the same signed proprietary firmware as the proprietary userspace component of the NVIDIA drivers. So that should unblock development of the open userspace component of the libre Nouveau drivers too.