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wasting_timeyesterday at 6:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Just to clarify: the NVIDIA driver is not in-tree, and probably never will be.

Intel and AMD are, but require proprietary firmware to work, so the freedom aspect is disputed.


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reinitctxoffsetyesterday at 7:02 PM

Pardon my shorthand. I meant open source and licensed under both MIT and GPLv2 such that distros build it alongside every other `.ko`.

One imagines if anyone has an issue it's with the RISC-V blob in GSP. Now while I myself wouldn't brave the wrath of NVIDIA's lawyers by like, calling Ghidra on it or anything, one imagines it doesn't have a lot of secrets from the motivated tinkerer!