Been having problems with my new SN770 drive, and decided to check if I can firmware update it on Linux. WD only provides a Windows tool, Western Digital Dashboard to download and install firmwares, but, it's possible to find the firmware and install it using Linux tooling as well.
❱ sudo pacman -S nvme-cli
This guide was created for EndeavourOs Endeavour Release which if using the Online installer, as of July 2024, will provide Plasma 6.1 and Nvidia 555 drivers. This guide shows using Grub but will work with systemd-boot as well if you follow steps for kernel params.
options nvidia_drm modeset=1
options nvidia_drm fbdev=1
options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0
options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp
I no longer consider any of this to be valid, and consider this entire adventure so far to have been intellectually dishonest and filled with questionable assumptions about everything, so, please, if you're reading this and got linked here, stop reading this and tell whoever linked you here to shut the f**k up already.
UPDATE: This (and, therefore, the promised bug reports) has been put on hold until I get around to getting actual evidence with the herein-mentioned RPi Pico + photoresistor setup, which is itself "delayed until further notice" because I simply have better and more important stuff to do[^1] right now.
UPDATE 2: Some madlad actually did it, only for GNOME though but that's still amazing
*UPDATE 3: Apparently, it's like this on purpose, at least