[tenebrisalietum]

No but Nvidia can with all their money.

GPUs are really the only thing requiring their own hardware drivers that's commonly installed. Everything else common and meaningful to the masses is pretty much USB, an old-school serial port, a network interface, or a block device. Bus/interconnect drivers like NVMe, SATA and all that are very standardized and your x86 know-how doesn't buy you any advantage.

Certainly there may be some issues with the trash heap that is ACPI/UEFI; and DTB can go ahead and steamroll that dumpster fire along with the rest of the x86 cruft - there was an x86 world before ACPI after all.

[immibis]

Irrelevant. Nvidia WON'T.

[tenebrisalietum]

Also irrelevant as well really. x86 isn't making Nvidia refuse to do it.

[anthk]

Nvidia has libre drivers and a firmware blob. Once you stick a PCIE card on a Risc-V port, all the FUD goes away.