Closed source firmware is acceptable for Linux. See: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/about/ https://git.kernel.org/

Closed source firmware is acceptable for Linux. See: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/about/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin... It would not be much of a stretch at all for nvidia to include their firmware there. The userspace stack is an issue. For upstream Linux, there’s a fairly hard rule that graphics driver interfaces must be usable with open source userspace. But I don’t think the nvidia graphics user parts are particularly secret, and someone could write such a thing.