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Nobody forces you to use a certain feature that you don't need or want to use.
Linux is also about choice. If people want to use a streaming service...

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Linux on a raspberry pi 4 can run 1080p Netflix in software decoding, but for Disney, amazon and hbo or hardware decoding, a proper lvl 1 wv level is...

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Are there similar features on other chips used in smartphones like Mali and adreno?
Can this allow widevine on video core (raspi) and Nvidia as...

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If the driver was open source, the firmware would still be closed. Wuuldn't that be the same kind of problem for the true believers?...

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So the teased open source announcement from Nvidia didn't even happen for the streamed announcements? I was curious about it and expected something todo...

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There are already 2. One closed, one open. Seems to happen with older distros

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Supporting new Codecs doesn't have to mean removing support for older stuff that is still heavily used in the real world

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There is a website with status of patches and a todo at https://masneyb.github.io/nexus-5-upstream/

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A lot of mobile devices let you unlock the bootloader. Their manufacturers even send out developer devices to get the ball rolling for custom rooms....

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The Samsung I9100 and I9300 are also quite far, but you can look through PostMarketOS yourself.
https://github.com/CustomROMs/android_local_man...

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You have work on the graphic side
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...Submit-Support
https://patchwork.fre...

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The github stuff is far from ready as it is a spare time reverse engineering effort.
Paragon could speed that up a lot ...