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Next step, we make an open source loadable module with a small virtual machine that loads blobs from user mode. It will only run blobs signed by a private key
by juancn 3y ago
Next step, we make an open source loadable module with a small virtual machine that loads blobs from user mode.
It will only run blobs signed by a private key owned by NVIDIA, the public key is part of the open source module.
Or we create a hypervisor that virtualizes linux, and bypasses most of the kernel or...
There's always a way... this is just annoying and makes it more expensive to get decent drivers for Linux, so less effort will be spent there.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> this is just annoying and makes it more expensive to get decent drivers for Linux, so less effort will be spent there No, it makes it more expensive to get proprietary drivers for Linux; it is not clear that this is a great loss.
- juancn 3y agoMost people don't give a damn wether the driver is open source or not. First of all they care if it works well enough. The biggest draw of open source is the "free as in beer" part (gratis), relatively few people care about the "free as in freedom" (libre).