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maxhille • today at 12:12 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

AFAIK the open source kernel driver pushes a signed proprietary 500Mb firmware blob into the GPU.


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NekkoDroid • today at 12:49 PM

The total linux-firmware-nvidia package for Archlinux uncompressed (outer, the firmware blobs are also compressed on top of that) is ~160MB (Mb would be Megabit), with the biggest individual compressed blob being ~50MB.

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