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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by fooker on Thursday June 13, 2024 @02:57PM (#40673236)
A driver is not a static one time thing.

Once you mainline it, making improvements, supporting new devices and features become 10x slower.

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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by lupusreal on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:27PM (#40673559)
Nobody says the old mainlined driver must support new devices. Mainline a new driver, or don't, either way it's better than nothing.
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by fooker on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:39PM (#40674450)
Yeah, better than nothing.

With a stable ABI, it would be better than everything. But we can't have it because of ideological reasons.

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