[PATCH v1 06/11] FSF: hardware: graphics-card: Nvidia: Warn about nonfree software.

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
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@@ -29,7 +29,20 @@ non-libre for our needs.
 
 ## Nvidia
 
-<https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html>
+Nvidia graphics card or chip require nonfree software to work:
+
+  * If the display works during the boot (in GRUB for instance) it
+    means that the boot software (the BIOS/UEFI, etc) ran the nonfree
+    video BIOS that is stored on a memory chip inside the graphic card.
+
+  * The nvidia driver need to load and run some bytecode that is also
+    stored somewhere in the memory chip of the graphic card.
+
+Beside the video BIOS issue, another question is if these cards works
+in free distros.
+
+See <https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html> for how to
+identify the family of an Nvidia card.
 
 We have many of such cards, some of which seem to basically work, but are
 unstable, some of which are rock solid, and others that are unknown due to
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