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Closed source firmware is acceptable for Linux. See:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

It would not be much of a stretch at all for nvidia to include their firmware there.

The userspace stack is an issue. For upstream Linux, there’s a fairly hard rule that graphics driver interfaces must be usable with open source userspace. But I don’t think the nvidia graphics user parts are particularly secret, and someone could write such a thing.



It already is for the 510 driver.




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