Nouveau Gallium3D Begins Landing RTX 30 "Ampere" GPU Driver Code

[M1kkko]

There's a workaround: one can extract firmware from their propietary driver and add a parameter to kernel command line to make it load this firmware. This is illegal, though.

I don't believe you for a second. Should be no more illegal than extracting the bios from your playstation to use it in an emulator.

[Ermine]

I don't believe you for a second. Should be no more illegal than extracting the bios from your playstation to use it in an emulator.

Maybe. At least, redistribution is prohibited - that is why you have to do it yourself and not download them with package manager. Sorry for being unclear.

[Quackdoc]

I don't believe you for a second. Should be no more illegal than extracting the bios from your playstation to use it in an emulator.

I wouldn't say that with such certainty. I don't know if they do it, but say they have some kind of copy protection mechanism in place and you need to bypass it. it then does become illegal in many countries. there are plenty of things to complicate things