Originally posted by MorrisS.
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That would work, but NVidia doesn't allow redistribution of them, which means if the devs took that firmware and started passing it around in their driver they'd be guilty of copyright infringement and they aren't willing to do that since they are mostly Red Hat developers. It is possible to download the nvidia drivers and then extract the firmware yourself and use it personally... But I think the nouveau devs have stayed away from that on the grounds that they don't want to be seen as encouraging piracy, since you know any tool like that would quickly be used to post those firmware files everywhere. Again, because they work for Red Hat and want to have good relations with NVidia.
AMD and Intel just provide their firmware files and allow people to redistribute them freely.
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