[johannkokos]

You can see why Nouveau devs are having difficulties with Nvidia in a Xorg developer confereence talk[1].

1. Relations with NvidiaNVIDIA changes prevent us from releasing a driver

  * Signed firmwares accessible publicly but not redistributable

  * Reverse engineering of vbios impossible

2. Communication mostly down

  * Main contact/dev left NVIDIA (Alexandre Courbot)

  * Most important requests left unanswered...

  * ... until more complete code than wanted lands publicly innvgpuweeks later

[1] https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2017/herbst_peres_nouveau.p...