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What about writing a tool to extract that signed firmware from the proprietary drivers and just using it? I think with some additional reverse engineering it's
by xvilka 5y ago
What about writing a tool to extract that signed firmware from the proprietary drivers and just using it? I think with some additional reverse engineering it's probably possible to automate this, assuming NVIDIA will not start changing the drivers specifically to fight this.
- zozbot234 5y agoPeople might actually start doing similar things if nVidia starts dropping support in their proprietary driver for cards that can't otherwise be usefully supported by nouveau. At that point, it'll be easy to rely on the observation that such actions are necessary for interoperability, hence justified as fair use. Not sure if we're at that point just yet.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoNvidia cards below the 800 series are unsupported by the 495 driver, which adds support for GBM, which is necessary for most Wayland compositors to have hardware acceleration. I'd say we're basically at that point.
- zozbot234 5y agoThe actual firmware issues seem to have started with the Maxwell series, which apparently still gets proper support. Nouveau might behave badly with lower-series cards, but not due to lack of signed firmware.
- asddubs 5y agowhat if you wanted to use linux with an nvidia card on a cpu that their driver does not support (e.g. risc)? That would presumably also fulfill the interoperability requirement, right?