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Re:Mitigations are attack surface, too by tasogare on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:17AM (#22317858)
Why Linux doesn't have a driver framework? That's seems the problem here. It exists in Windows, FreeBSD and probably elsewhere too.
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Re:Mitigations are attack surface, too by adrianN on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:33AM (#22317978)
To encourage people to either open source their drivers so that they can be maintained inside the kernel tree, or to pay the cost of updating their stuff themselves so that Linux kernel hackers don't have to pay for backwards compatibility.
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Re:Mitigations are attack surface, too by pjmlp on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:09PM (#22319354)
It does wonders for those stuck with AMD cards on their laptops not supported by the open sourced driver.
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Re:Mitigations are attack surface, too by underlines on Sunday February 16, 2020 @10:53PM (#22345477)
if i understand the discussion correctly user space drivers could not help, right? and sadly, user space drivers in android are fairly limited.

https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/drivers

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Re:Mitigations are attack surface, too by the_why_of_y on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:26PM (#22320587)
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html
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