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In the same kind of funny subject, GPUs nowadays have full MMUs, with TLBs and all present too…
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> C is the glue interface that connects all the different languages together. That's one of the issues in most UNIX systems. Windows sidestepped it with COM (and a much improved WinRT as a successor, with a .NET-y object model). On
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https://github.com/woachk/dockerinstall for a very minimal install, stuff other than that is unneeded for Windows containers.
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> Would you also take the cost of their labor? Google takes a 30% cut on the Play Store, it's their problem to police it properly.
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For Python 3, has been true since Apple started shipping Python 3 on macOS. For Python 2, it was bundled within the OS itself.
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> Can someone comment on the legality of a 3rd party providing an unauthorized implemention of the CUDA API? NVIDIA said that they would be fine with it in the past, and ROCm HIP is just a (bad) CUDA API clone.
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Note that a full Xcode install isn’t required, Xcode-select —-install (500MB or so command line tools bundle) includes Python.
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As far as I know: Apple OS naming isn't semver. They really have two OS major releases a year, Spring and Fall trains.
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mt8192 is already buyable for me, that said mt8195 is a significant bump over that: https://www.mediatek.com/products/products/tablets/mediatek-... Hopefully that reaches retail quite soon.
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> that failed internally Was available in public beta on Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview.
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> I don't know if Switch could be emulated with Wine-like approach, if not, it would be tricky to intercept syscalls without an ARM-to-ARM DBT. Performance impact should be minimal though. You don't need a DBT, VMs on arm64 are
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D3D12 has more compute features than Vulkan has. It works out for DXVK because games often don’t use those, but it’ll cause much more issues with CLon12. By the way, if you are ready to have a _limited_ implementation without a full feature
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Indeed, UEFI is the modern DOS.
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> OpenCL does not work. There's some bits about intel [& amd] GPUs, but nada on nvidia This is planned to be fixed. WSL2’s GPU support currently doesn’t provide a path to provide an alternate OpenCL loader ICD location. (And not
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A TPM allows to detect this tampering if used properly for that use case. (To clarify, Windows with BitLocker bound to TPM and Secure Boot on does _not_ do this, taking a shortcut) UEFI Secure Boot doesn’t have much to do with this, because
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Note that Intel’s implementation is on the PCH/chipset, and as such allowing users to freely swap CPUs.
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> and that Nvidia did not support Wayland Nvidia does support Wayland. For KDE, the issue is: https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtwayland/-/merge_requests/24 You'll have to wait until that gets t
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The iOS and Android apps are both kinda okay, but the web, Mac and Windows ones just suck.
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CrossOver’s Wine builds have wine32on64 to run x86_32 programs using Rosetta 2 on M1 macs. Available at https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine if you want to use a free build for example.
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> if you're not distributing your work That’s not true either. There’s no such distinction. A program using a GPL library (such as the kernel) is considered as a derivative work according to the FSF. Canonical legal (for ZFS) decide
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That’s the approach used by the Apple T2. On the Intel side, it’s the chipset soldered on the motherboard which does that verification, so CPU swapping isn’t affected.
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In Intel’s case the ME as a whole is on the PCH.
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Using StoreKit allows Apple to measure the number of purchases done, to take their cut.
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It wasn't inaccurate. It was true only for the Developer Transition Kit (with Apple A12X). It doesn't apply to release hardware.
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> Manufacturers have the option of producing standards-compliant goddamn hardware For PCIe indeed, but that’s not when the issues are present the most. There’s no standard register interface for integrated GPUs, modems… > but it'
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> Windows-specific mess that has close to zero standard PNP* things Those are hardware dependent platform devices. Qualcomm didn’t have another option. (Nor do other manufacturers really) On x86, a virtual PCIe bus abstraction is heavily
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You don't even need a true signature. An ad-hoc one (which can be linker-generated) and has no cryptographic key attached is considered as valid.
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For arm: anything that runs Windows on Arm64 uses UEFI + ACPI, making stuff easier on that front. Linux drivers for Qualcomm SoCs don't have extensive ACPI bindings at this point in time though, making the use of a separate devicetree
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> Wasn't there a line of MS Surface devices where secure boot could not be disabled, and users were stuck with Windows? All Windows RT devices (32-bit Arm desktop Windows). Not only Secure Boot was locked down there, but apps had to
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Xenix was also sold for the 8086.
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