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Hello_there@fedia.io 1 day ago
Most of the screens you see on modern cases don't have firmware for Linux. So good to see a modern one that does. Would make sense for this to be used on any of the Linux gaming boxes that are around.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Firmware shouldn’t care what OS the CPU is running as it’s doing its own thing, running on an embedded processor of some sort on the device.
Though it can be used to lock out unapproved software if it needs an encryption key or relies on an undocumented interface they only told their windows driver writers about.
So I’m not saying firmware can’t be used to lock linux out from being able to use certain hardware, just don’t believe them if they try to play it off as they would need to write a special linux version of the firmware to make it happen; it’s a deliberate lockout either via encryption or by making the information needed to implement it proprietary.
Though at least the latter case could be reverse engineered, especially if you can sniff the bus traffic.