Linux already maintains quirks code paths for all kinds of devices where the manufacturer "could have" updated the firmware to fix the bug but never did.

It also contains quirks for Intel x86 core platform features: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/kerne...

For the now-fashionable LLMs-on-GPUs world, it's pretty much just matrix multiplications. How many patents can reside in that? I don't expect Google to sell TPUs because that's not the business they're in, but AMD could put them in their SoCs without writing drivers: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture-tpu-vm...