> Hopefully this will replace the blob in the future for Nvidia users. Seems deeply unlikely, having read the article. quote: > There are a few things which h

> Hopefully this will replace the blob in the future for Nvidia users. Seems deeply unlikely, having read the article. quote: > There are a few things which have changed recently to make the technical landscape a bit more friendly. The first change actually happened a few years ago when NVIDIA launched their Turing class of hardware. Turing GPUs use a new unified firmware blob. The GSP firmware contains everything needed for bringing up the GPU, and once the GSP firmware is loaded, it loads all the other firmwares needed by various pieces of the GPU. If we can get GSP working, this will allow us to use the same firmware as the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and should solve many of the mystery bugs. Dave Airlie gave a very good talk at LPC about this. I'm not aware of any efforts to replace the firmware blob. This work is based off of a complete blob finally actually possibly being semi useful, and not some stripped-down ultra-minimal open-source blob that barely sets up anything.