Drivers will be and to some extent are covered by a user-space driver framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit https://developer.apple.com

Drivers will be and to some extent are covered by a user-space driver framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit) hardware accelerated operations will be covered by whatever drivers ship with the OS or can be written by DriverKit. The times when Photoshop has required kernel extensions to be loaded are long gone. The UX around kernel extensions has been very bad for years already (granted - just a trip to the system preferences, but still), so Adobe really couldn't afford such requirements already.