Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful
Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful
Posted Oct 26, 2012 16:38 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)Parent article: Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful
It's not like we haven't seen CPU microcode bugs, and it's not like the CPU doesn't have access to the whole system. The real issue I see with the raspberry pi drivers is that the GPU is a bit like the 386, where the OS can't effectively constrain what the firmware is willing to do for userspace applications.
And there's the different history: it's like if we'd historically never had an x86 chip, and had been emulating it on the Z80 using a secret proprietary optimizing emulator. And then someone comes out with a microcoded x86 chip, and this release is obviously not informative at all about anything that we didn't know before.
Posted Oct 26, 2012 21:58 UTC (Fri)
by cyanit (guest, #86671)
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