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The other points still stand. And it's possible there is also a legal reason that prohibits taking apart the driver. In any case, it would defeat the purpose of
by samus 5y ago
The other points still stand. And it's possible there is also a legal reason that prohibits taking apart the driver. In any case, it would defeat the purpose of having an open source driver.
- mschuster91 5y ago> In any case, it would defeat the purpose of having an open source driver. Not really. Having a closed-source on-card firmware blob but linking it with an open source kernel-side driver would have so many benefits, first of all not needing to depend on NVIDIA to keep up with upstream changes and stuff breaking at every kernel, xorg or whatever upgrade.
- samus 5y agoI have to admit I don't understand the relationships between SecureBoot, the Power Management Firmware and the kernel well enough to exactly say why it doesn't work.