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On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> wrote: > I think arm has open source kernel drivers but there is no way they will get > mainlined any time soon. The question is, how much does the userland blob do everything. the open source kernel "driver" cannot actually be called a "driver" at all. it is nothing more than a gateway to the actual hardware. peripherals on ARM are memory-mapped: the "driver" simply provides access to the shared memory region (plus maybe handles some interrupts). this is a constant source of confusion with people believing that just because the "shim" has been released, somehow magically it's all okay. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
