Internal helper code inside the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA GPU driver that handles parsing and loading of GPU firmware blobs used by the NVKM core. It is a support layer for Nouveau, not a separately bound hardware driver.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is a shared firmware-handling utility module that lives inside the Nouveau NVIDIA GPU driver tree. It exists only to support the rest of Nouveau and has no independent lifecycle or removal question of its own.
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Not a driver directory: internal nouveau NVKM firmware-support code (`nvfw`), not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.