Nouveau Firmware Verification?

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__martin__
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jxself
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Barf. First Intel, now NVIDIA. Hopefully this will piss off enough people that they start caring about software freedom but probably not. Probably just another step on the path to the free software dark ages. :(

Michał Masłowski

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You forget AMD. Their SMU firmware in northbridges is signed (I don't
know if there are public results on how effective it is or how optional
the firmware is), it does some tasks related to power management: like
what the NVIDIA features restricted to signed firmware do. (AMD has or
will have something like AMT, possibly with similar problems for free
systems.)

I think the AMD GPU microcode is not signed, replacing it might be the
best way on x86 systems (as hard as what Nouveau currently does, but
with publicly redistributable blobs: less motivation for distro vendors
to support reverse engineering). Or NVIDIA won't decide to make
necessary features require signed firmware.

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