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NVIDIA Transitioning To Official, Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Driver
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As I understand things, the NVIDIA binary blob kernel driver contains various bits of signed firmware that is downloaded to the card for various features including being able to change the power level/clock speed of the card (firmware that is intentionally made difficult to extract from the driver) and that NVIDIA have released some of these firmware pieces for use by open source drivers but not the bits that are needed for power level/clock speed stuff.
Does this new open source release include the firmware that gets loaded to the GPU and if so is it the crippled version previously released or the full-fat version with power/clock stuff?
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For everyone here praising AMD and (still) condemning NVIDIA:
* AMD also had a strictly closed source driver before they went open source. Everyone has to start somewhere. (However AMDs/ATIs close source driver was a bigger shit show than NVIDIAs ever was.).
* AMD also only released open source drivers for the newer card generations at the time. I still remember that, because I (also) was pissed that I still had to cling to their closed source driver back then, even though they now were praised for their opensource strategy.
So yes, AMD is a few years ahead in regards to an open source (or maybe open-core?) strategy, but IMO that doesn't take anything away from NVIDIA also (finally) taking that course. So calm down everyone and be happy that we are on a promising road now.
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This definitely isn't as big as you want it to be: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1524615058688724992
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