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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
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How is it not? Open source doesn't mean you have to accept other people's code. And it is perfectly valid to only dump code for every release, even some GNU projects (like GCC) used to work that way. Hell, there's even a book about the two different approaches in open source.
It allowed the actual in-tree nouveau kernel module to take the code for interacting with the GSP firmware to allow changing GPU clock speed - in other words no more being stuck on the lowest possible frequency like with the GTX 10 series cards. Seems like a pretty decent benefit to me.