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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by hs86 on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:21PM (#22678568)
If they keep all third parties out of their kernel, could this ease a possible x86-to-ARM transition?
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by flqn on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:38PM (#22678748)
Potentially, though there are other solutions that could be used. There was a product they used a while back during the transition to x86 architecture that did code translation, for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:43PM (#22678789)
That would work with user-space extensions, but would it work in the kernel?
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by skunkworker on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:50PM (#22680819)
That was and still is an impressive piece of code. Another more recent one is the RPCS3 PS3 Emulator, emulating the async PPC cell chip on modern x86 processors.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by saagarjha on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:07PM (#22679020)
(Better known as Rosetta, when Apple licensed it.)
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by internalthief on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:35PM (#22678724)
Yes, absolutely.
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