This just gives Nvidia an excuse to ship cryptographically signed firmware that checks serial numbers burnt into the card and disables the card remotely. Make

This just gives Nvidia an excuse to ship cryptographically signed firmware that checks serial numbers burnt into the card and disables the card remotely. Make no mistake; they have the capability to ensure that those cards are paperweights. Just look at the nouveau project and how post-Maxwell cards are effectively locked into proprietary drivers via cryptograpgic signature verification of the firmware blob gating access to the power management and reclocking API's.