tl;dr further signs that the open source Nvidia driver stack on Linux is getting semi-official support

  • @c10lEnglish
    9•1 month ago

    You don’t and likely never will get a fully open stack for those GPUs. Even the latest Radeon cards have a lot of closed-source binary blobs for firmware.

    Where the line is drawn between the driver and the firmware blobs makes a massive difference though. Look at the recent case of AMD trying (and failing) to license HDMI 2.1+ for their open source drivers.

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected