@meeper @sun @thatbrickster There is no "open drivers", just a MIT expat shim that facilitates GPLv2-infringement of the driver that runs on the GPU.

Previously there was a GPLv2-infringing shim and part of the driver ran in userspace and another part ran on the GPU - so there is no real difference.


There is a free software driver available called nouveau, although any re-clocking support is via reverse engineering and only up to the 700 series has free peripheral software for the GPUs - anything after the 700 series is designed to maliciously refuse to spin up the fans unless proprietary software that passes a signature check (to make it cryptographically impossible to replace it with free software) is loaded up onto the card.