NVIDIA's Response To Recent Nouveau Work
Last week after many DRM improvements went into the Linux 2.6.33 kernel Linus Torvalds got a bit upset and wanted Nouveau merged into the mainline kernel. In the mailing list discussion that followed, it looked like Linus' request wouldn't be immediately acted upon due to legal issues with Nouveau surrounding some unknown microcode/firmware that is a critical part of the initialization process for newer graphics cards. However, this microcode ended up being pulled out of the driver itself and now relies upon it being loaded as firmware, which ended up in a Nouveau pull request just a day later.
This essentially spells the end of the xf86-video-nv driver, which was never good and should have died off long ago. Below is Andy Ritger's response, who leads NVIDIA's Unix graphics team.
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