qb45

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   by qb45 14y ago

   People already mod cars. Many of these mods are significantly more complicated than changing one number in some EEPROM and yet almost all accidents are still caused by driver error. There is a very good incentive to not screw up your car.
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   by qb45 14y ago

   Actually, even without hints or any other "code" parsing nontrivial formats provides opportunities for bugs causing buffer overflows or other memory corruptions. This simply shouldn't be done in the kernel, period. However, twenty years ago
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   by qb45 14y ago

   Maybe they use winelib - a library built by WINE project which provides Windows API implementation extracted from WINE.
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   by qb45 14y ago

   I've found quite readable and relatively high level description of memory management and command submission in Linux drivers for Intel GPUs. http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/01/i915gem-crashcourse-overview.ht... This (plus some low-level registe
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   by qb45 14y ago

   In Linux systems good chunk of graphics stack already resides in userspace. The kernel provides only modesetting, GPU memory management, access multiplexing and isolation. Applications render by calling OpenGL library, which obviously execu