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Glad to see improvements are coming! Articles like this make me more and more curious whether Fuchsia is an alternative bid to resolve relevant kernel vulnerabi
by dikaiosune 9y ago
Glad to see improvements are coming! Articles like this make me more and more curious whether Fuchsia is an alternative bid to resolve relevant kernel vulnerabilities in a more centralized, architecturally driven fashion, not just a way to get out from under the GPL.
- _pmf_ 9y agoSwitching to Fuchsia (which will never happen because it is a toy project to occupy bored engineers) does not magically solve the problem that device vendors want to minimize the work in maintaining their drivers. Even enforcing open source drivers (for the sake of discussion) will not help, because at a certain complexity, the device driver writer requires knowledge about undocumented internals of the device that is just not available outside the manufacturer. There must be an economic incentive for device manufacturers to maintain/update their drivers, otherwise it cannot happen. Users want to buy new devices, not pay directly or indirectly for updating their old devices; this basically seals the deal.
- afsina 9y agoToy project? I doubt that. There is frantic work going on by perhaps more than a hundred engineers if I am not mistaken: https://fuchsia-review.googlesource.com/ https://fuchsia-review.googlesource.com/