Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat

Re:Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:40PM (#28859961)

Okay, so the policy questions are interesting, but I have a technical question: How are they handling kernel compatibility? Even with DKMS API breakage could be brutal, and Valve supports Arch as a first class target so they can't just stick to a stable/old version (it'd be easy with RHEL and doable with Ubuntu, but Arch?).

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Re:Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat by dbaggerman on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:43PM (#28859980)

I was a little confused about this as well - until I realised they don't actually specify that this is the Linux kernel. I suspect what they're talking about here is the Windows kernel.

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Re:Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @11:21PM (#28860185)

Oh. Thanks, I just... I'd heard about folks working on anticheat for Linux, so I just assumed... You're right, though.

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Re:Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat by jamesfinlayson on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:21AM (#28860488)

I've heard that Valve's VAC only runs on Windows so maybe they're doing the same thing.

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