[TerraHertz]

There's a deeper reason. Remember 3Dfx? They made the entire source code for their 3D hardware available to developers, all in C and a tiny bit of assembler. It could be easily ported to non-Wintel platforms. (I know, because I did port it to a MIPS based platform that had zero operating system. It was a poker machine.)

Then 3Dfx was smashed from the inside and bought out by nVidia. Source code to 3D accellerator hardware drivers never to be seen again.

Why? Because if just anybody could port 3D graphics hardware and drivers to any custom hardware and OS platform, then Microsoft, Apple, etc would rapidly be killed by something with a MUCH better GUI (3D) appearing on the market.

The powers that be do NOT want capable, unchained computing systems to upset their carefully constructed 'enslavement via enshitification' schemes.

[ryao]

Some of it is open source:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

[einpoklum]

Have you actually looked at those "sources"? You should. Or rather, you shouldn't since you'd be wasting your time trying to find anything useful.

[garaetjjte]

>Source code to 3D accellerator hardware drivers never to be seen again.

What? Mesa supports plenty of hardware.