On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Mike Leimon leimon@gmail.com wrote:
If ARM is still as openly hostile as they appear to be towards reverse engineering of their GPU designs, I don't think that pursuing lima development is a very good option. I suspect that if development of the driver resumes, they will probably continue their horrible crusade against Luc and I don't want to see that happen to anybody.
well forewarned is forearmed. and it's quite easy, when reverse-engineering, to find security flaws. for every unethical action that ARM takes it would be really easy to release another zero-day exploit with full source code and a CVE report.
pretty soon they'd get the message.
I think that if we are really trying to play the long game here, then that money would be better spent working towards the development of an open GPU design that we can can use in future risc-v SOCs.
exactly my point.
l.