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by ynnn 2586 days ago
There's basically no chance that the current proprietary drivers will ever end up upstream, so if ARM / nvidia drivers were open source they would be out of tree.

Given that the most frequently cited reason that these drivers should be open source is improved user experience (less breakage when the kernel changes, easier install), what would be the advantage of an out of tree open source driver?