You don't have to accept microkernel dogma to get drivers out of kernel. Keep the whole OS model monolithic if you want. Just ban drivers!
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If drivers ran in full-nobody-container with full seccomp and only got mmap (and from hardware side, iommu) access to their declared mem...
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...you could run the obfuscated Android SoC driver shit, or even outright proprietary blobs, without even having to care what they do.
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which is why vendors not releasing specs and driver source code is irresponsible in addition to being accomplice to monopolies.
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Most of them do release source (it's linked in GPL kernel) but the source is utter crap, non-upstreamable, prohibitively expensive to audit.
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the "political" handling of the kernel dev to require drivers to be in tree didn't really work out well anyway…
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https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/drivers/index.html … / https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/pio/index.html … is that, forcing vendors to write drivers unprivileged drivers in a memory safe language.
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that would be a great idea to pitch to the
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