> About 1: I believe that this hurts more than it helps. Expecting nVidia to move their OS-agnostic codebase into the Linux kernel sounds like a massive effort

> About 1: I believe that this hurts more than it helps. Expecting nVidia to move their OS-agnostic codebase into the Linux kernel sounds like a massive effort with no real benefit for them. That seems unlikely to happen. Nouveau is already upstream. Nvidia should just stop messing it up and allow it to access GPU registers for proper reclocking. So there is no valid argument about difficulty at all. It's purely political and anti-competitive on Nvidia's part.