[snvzz]

This is one of many ways by which NVIDIA actively sabotages the open source driver effort.

They were catching up at some point, and NVIDIA started doing that.

[pabs3]

The good news is that with the new open Linux kernel drivers from NVIDIA, Nouveau folks will be able to use the same signed proprietary firmware as the proprietary userspace component of the NVIDIA drivers. So that should unblock development of the open userspace component of the libre Nouveau drivers too.