[Arm-netbook] mali gpu reverse engineering lkcl may ignore

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Mike Leimon <leimon at gmail.com> wrote:

> If ARM is still as openly hostile as they appear to be towards reverse
> engineering of their GPU designs, I don't think that pursuing lima
> development is a very good option. I suspect that if development of the
> driver resumes, they will probably continue their horrible crusade against
> Luc and I don't want to see that happen to anybody.

 well forewarned is forearmed.  and it's quite easy, when
reverse-engineering, to find security flaws.  for every unethical
action that ARM takes it would be really easy to release another
zero-day exploit with full source code and a CVE report.

 pretty soon they'd get the message.

> I think that if we are really trying to play the long game here, then that
> money would be better spent working towards the development of an
> open GPU design that we can can use in future risc-v SOCs.

 exactly my point.

l.