Re:Fuchsia: a new operating system
by snvzz on Saturday April 01, 2017 @06:48PM
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>If you think binary GPU drivers are bad now, imagine an "open source" OS where every single driver is a binary blob.
The current situation is they're tied to a version of the kernel, and typically abandoned by the vendors. With userspace drivers and driver APIs, the "android upgrade problem" would be solved.
It'd then be a matter of reversing these drivers, which should be far easier when they're running in userspace and completely bounded.
The current situation is they're tied to a version of the kernel, and typically abandoned by the vendors. With userspace drivers and driver APIs, the "android upgrade problem" would be solved.
It'd then be a matter of reversing these drivers, which should be far easier when they're running in userspace and completely bounded.