NVIDIA Pushes 62MB Of GSP Binary Firmware Blobs Into Linux-Firmware.Git

[yoshi314]

that's because the driver comes with the firmware. and the interface of the firmware changing is a non issue.

[avis]

you just spread lies the AMD windows Vulkan driver is shared with the AMDVLK Linux driver.
but you wrongfully claim only Nvidia does share code between linux and windows.

avis honestly you are the most rotten to the core person here in this forum.

Nvidia shares a ton of the kernel driver code between Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. AMDPro uses a separate Linux only driver code base.

You throw "liar" and insults so often at people, please don't get hurt in real life. Oh wait maybe in real life you're a decent person, not what you're here on Phoenix forums.

I'm appalled you've never been banned here. You denigrate and destroy people.

I'm quite sad the ignore feature on these forums continue to malfunction. Your truly vile and mean posts stick out like a festering reeking wound.

[avis]

62 Mb is big for git. Every time the blob is updated - it's + 62 Mb to the repo.

So, after year of updates, one need to git clone every previously pushed version.

There is git lfs, I wonder, is it used?

git clone --depth 1

Has got you covered. 99.99% of Linux users don't fetch firmware directly via git and use what the distro pushes on them.

[cl333r]

ngl I have no idea what you are getting at here.

No wonder

[billyswong]

that's because the driver comes with the firmware. and the interface of the firmware changing is a non issue.

So what should one do for VM + GPU passthrough? I disagree with the thinking that unstable firmware ABI is a "non issue". I would rather say it is a bigger issue than unstable ABI/API of kernel-user interface. If every VMs + host machines must update driver/firmware in sync, ugh.

[cl333r]

No, but hackers relocate there a lot and they often hide in those places. It's geopolitics, there's everywhere but more concentrating in those places.

The biggest place where such money concentrates is London.

Most "hackers" are simply workers for rich people, usually a proxy of MI6 and CIA. Most rich assholes in the world who steal 8+ figures in their countries flee to London when they're about to be persecuted for their crimes, then in London they follow the typical procedure - they share part of their stolen money with Britain, often agree to lie and fight the govts of their countries and Britain in return gives them asylum and portrays them as innocent victims of X regime (recall all the Russian oligarchs who fled?).
I bet you never read this in western history books or in western news. Instead all you hear that Britain is doing is "fighting for freedom, democracy and human rights" - which is the modus operandi of the strongest and worst terrorist states in the world.

Which is one of the big reasons why Britain (the oldest still acting big terrorist state, not as active as the US) is having such economic woes - the world's worst thieves don't flee to it as often as before because it's not safe anymore (because of sanctions).

I'm still surprised how in every little country the most corrupt assholes who cripple their little countries have very strong relations to London and US in general, often have children there.

[Quackdoc]

So what should one do for VM + GPU passthrough? I disagree with the thinking that unstable firmware ABI is a "non issue". I would rather say it is a bigger issue than unstable ABI/API of kernel-user interface. If every VMs + host machines must update driver/firmware in sync, ugh.

VM VFIO emulates the actual pcie bus, you can passthrough pcie cards that are unsupported on linux to windows and have them work in windows

The biggest place where such money concentrates is London.

Most "hackers" are simply workers for rich people, usually a proxy of MI6 and CIA. Most rich assholes in the world who steal 8+ figures in their countries flee to London when they're about to be persecuted for their crimes, then in London they follow the typical procedure - they share part of their stolen money with Britain, often agree to lie and fight the govts of their countries and Britain in return gives them asylum and portrays them as innocent victims of X regime (recall all the Russian oligarchs who fled?).
I bet you never read this in western history books or in western news. Instead all you hear that Britain is doing is "fighting for freedom, democracy and human rights" - which is the modus operandi of the strongest and worst terrorist states in the world.

Which is one of the big reasons why Britain (the oldest still acting big terrorist state, not as active as the US) is having such economic woes - the world's worst thieves don't flee to it as often as before because it's not safe anymore (because of sanctions).

I'm still surprised how in every little country the most corrupt assholes who cripple their little countries have very strong relations to London and US in general, often have children there.

this is the most blatantly cringe crap I have ever heard off.

First of all as a term. using the term Hacker here anyways is cringe. it's an encompassing term that is use way too widely. However, what's being talked about here, reverse engineering the firmware signing and leaking it to the public, is almost never done by a state. These are usually done by people who are, by western standards, breaking the law and would serve time, the countries in question are much more lax with the laws regarding this

[cl333r]

VM VFIO emulates the actual pcie bus, you can passthrough pcie cards that are unsupported on linux to windows and have them work in windows



this is the most blatantly cringe crap I have ever heard off.

First of all as a term. using the term Hacker here anyways is cringe. it's an encompassing term that is use way too widely. However, what's being talked about here, reverse engineering the firmware signing and leaking it to the public, is almost never done by a state. These are usually done by people who are, by western standards, breaking the law and would serve time, the countries in question are much more lax with the laws regarding this

this is the most blatantly cringe crap I have ever heard of. Countries (their govts) are the biggest criminals in the world by definition. The fact that you're clueless about history and geopolitics is no wonder. The worst ones are the UK and US because both follow the policy of the British Empire - colonialism that portrays itself as fighting against all world's Evil.

[oiaohm]

You mean that Linux is decades behind because it doesn't have a stable graphics driver ABI. This issue doesn't exist on Windows, nor on Mac when they were using AMD/NVidia.

Of course this is you skipping over something. Linux does have a stable API for graphics drivers that Nvidia has avoided using for a long time because that would equal agreeing to open source and GPL.

When it comes to being able to mix and match firmware userspace and kernel driver AMD and Intel are in fact ahead.

Nvidia run into issue on Mac OS due to not wanting to support metal as apple wanted. Nvidia run into trouble with Vista again because they did not want to support what Microsoft wanted in API/ABI. Microsoft does change their ABI for graphics drivers and does need to pull Nvidia kicking and screaming into supporting newer version. Yes since party though Windows 10 new drivers for Windows 10 and newer has to be signed by Microsoft and if Nvidia drivers don't update to the new ABI they don't get signed because the driver fails the pre signing audit.

Nvidia has been a problem child for Mcirosoft and Apple as well..

[Alexmitter]

I'm appalled you've never been banned here. Your truly vile and mean posts stick out like a festering reeking wound.

Birdie, you are the last person that should speak about bans. Its a shame Michael isn't more strict in banning your new accounts.