The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ - eviltoast
  • lad@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Got it. I agree that their drivers are (were?) of exemplary bad quality

    But I don’t think that it is realistically possible to drop all the proprietary firmware blobs, and if it’s not maybe it’s better to not actively sabotage something to ‘avoid those being feasible’?

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Firmware don’t link to the kernel tho, and the kernel functions aren’t stable so a firmware today would stop working tomorrow because a function was refactored(and all the code in the kernel that depend on that function) for performance or security, and the binary can’t be refactored so it become useless