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Re:Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia'... by xg15 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:08PM (#29488197)
Dumb question: Closed-source doesn't mean encrypted. What stops people from disassembling and reverse-engineering the blob?

Of course, distributing a "cracked" driver would breach licensing agreements and violate copyright (and possibly other laws), so it's out of the question for any kind of professional use. However, if Nvidia uses it to differentiate services, wouldn't there be a significant risk of private consumers (gamers, hobbyists, etc) using such a driver to "upgrade" their cards for personal use?

Re:Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia'... by NtGuy25 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:29PM (#29489259)
They have. There are driver patches that allow unlimited encoding streams and other "enterprise" features.
Re:Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia'... by 1_player on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:23PM (#29491925)
AFAIK it is both closed source and encrypted. Otherwise we would already have nouveau with black market firmware extracted from the official driver than unlocks power and clock management (something that nouveau can't do, reason why it's so slow to be useless on modern cards)
Re:Fedora 36 Planning to Run Wayland by Default with Nvidia'... by bravetraveler on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:23PM (#29489999)
That's actually how we got nouveau, as I understand things...

The firmware itself truly is signed and so on