This is not a question I really know how to plug into DuckDuckGo effectively.
Is it a case that once the kernel included the blobs, and Ubuntu included the blobbed kernel, most people simply lost interest?
Or are the technical challenges of these chipsets such that its development is more difficult than other things?
Are there any parallels here with the nouveau project? I'm generally pretty impressed with nouveau's current capability, and their website says that nVidia only offers minimal assistance to the project.
While I don't think it's particularly germane to the conversation, I'll mention that my Alienware m17x R3 has this in it:
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
And since I'm in lspci, this is my graphics chipset. Would I potentially be much less impressed with nouveau if I had something else?
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92M [GeForce GTX 260M] (rev a2)
