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NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver (www.phoronix.com)
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tl;dr further signs that the open source Nvidia driver stack on Linux is getting semi-official support

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[–] c10l@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months 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