NVIDIA's public reasoning was to prevent fraudulent individuals/companies from flashing a vBIOS of a higher-end graphics card onto a lower-end product to sell it at a premium as if it were the higher-end product.
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My understanding in regards to Noveau using the official firmware for these cards is that the firmware is built into the binary blob drivers in a way that makes it basically impossible to pull them out in a form Noveau could upload to the cards and have work.
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Originally posted by jonwil View PostMy understanding in regards to Noveau using the official firmware for these cards is that the firmware is built into the binary blob drivers in a way that makes it basically impossible to pull them out in a form Noveau could upload to the cards and have work.
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