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minus-squareDashmaybe@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoTo clarify on why it’s especially terrifying, for the nVidia drivers to be closed source, they’ve been allowed to add binaries into the Linux kernel. Nobody but nVidia knows what those binaries actually contain.
minus-squareNekkoDroid@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoThe entire linux-firmware package is just a conjuntion of binary blobs from different vendos (one of with is AMD). This is nothing special.
To clarify on why it’s especially terrifying, for the nVidia drivers to be closed source, they’ve been allowed to add binaries into the Linux kernel. Nobody but nVidia knows what those binaries actually contain.
The entire
linux-firmware
package is just a conjuntion of binary blobs from different vendos (one of with is AMD). This is nothing special.Sure, and I don’t like any of it.