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But that would take woooorrrrk π€
Not much work really, but few companies want their spaghetti code seen publicly.
Iβd imagine any company open-sourcing their code has to go through a pretty decent amount of re-written routines. Nvidia has been open-sourcing their drivers, but itβs been taking forever. I can only imagine how complex commenting GPU firmware must be.
Or you could just winamp it.
Oh, right, that's a terrible idea.
It's been taking forever because they're moving a lot of code into the firmware to keep it closed source. It's essentially a brand new driver that takes advantage of newer firmware.
That's one of the reasons the open-source driver only works with Turing (2000 series) and newer cards - they don't want to spend the time updating older firmware to handle the open-source driver.