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Can anyone with knowledge of the "OpenGL permissions and security" issue explain the problem?
by degenerate 8y ago
Can anyone with knowledge of the "OpenGL permissions and security" issue explain the problem?
- justin66 8y agoYou'd need knowledge of the beta version of Open GL on OS X, from twenty years ago, as well.
- rusk 8y agoI've no knowledge of OpenGL but based on the content in the story I'd take a stab that they weren't implemented fully for performance reasons. I don't know why a game developer would be so concerned with that though. But I know nothing about game development either ...
- mentat 8y agoProbably the ability to read memory from arbitrary places in the kernel via DMA. It's continued to be a challenged for DMA devices...
- justin66 8y agoCarmack worked on the Linux Utah-GLX drivers in the runup to q3's release and would have had a lot of thoughts on the low-level GL implementation details.