Many of the Linux drivers we have today are reverse engineered. At minimum the entirety of the Apple M1 support, all of the ARM GPU drivers, the nouveau driver.

Many of the Linux drivers we have today are reverse engineered. At minimum the entirety of the Apple M1 support, all of the ARM GPU drivers, the nouveau driver. Open source firmware is much less common and firmware reverse engineering even more rare though. https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open