Intel's "redundant prefix issue"
Intel's "redundant prefix issue"
Posted Nov 18, 2023 2:07 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Intel's "redundant prefix issue" by paulj
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> I was referring to heat wrt modern cards. Thermal power management on some cards can be disabled.
> Had this argument been held as valid then, we couldn't have had open graphics drivers then.
> Had this argument been held as valid then, we couldn't have had open graphics drivers then.
I hate to break this to you, but modern graphics cards _also_ rely on signed firmware. That's why NVidia cards had been so useless with open drivers until recently, the only allowed firmware was locked to the lowest power management setting.
Posted Nov 20, 2023 10:19 UTC (Mon)
by paulj (subscriber, #341)
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Intel's "redundant prefix issue"
I'm well aware. Just saying these are not good arguments as to why firmware must be closed.