I suggest you actually read the documentation about the things you link. As explained, the “open” Nvidia drivers are actually a tiny open component around a proprietary closed blob that actually drives the GPU.
No doubt, but where does the documentation explain that? It’s not totally surprising that the firmware would remain closed source for now.
Regardless of the fact that firmware and userspace components are still closed source, this is still an improvement for the Nvidia + Linux relationship.
Nvidia released open source drivers in 2024.
Which are barely more than a first step as they are just the bare minimum with everything else being proprietary and pushed to userspace.
They did not. Only the firmware is open source, the driver is closed
I think you have that backwards…
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
I suggest you actually read the documentation about the things you link. As explained, the “open” Nvidia drivers are actually a tiny open component around a proprietary closed blob that actually drives the GPU.
No doubt, but where does the documentation explain that? It’s not totally surprising that the firmware would remain closed source for now.
Regardless of the fact that firmware and userspace components are still closed source, this is still an improvement for the Nvidia + Linux relationship.