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		flakiness on July 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse-Engineering the Mali G78 I thought they mostly open-sourced the GPU driver for Linux? I interpret it as a way to compete against(proprietary) CUDA dominance, but maybe that is wrong? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/dr...

floatboth on July 21, 2021 | [–]

Yeah, and their main reason for some proprietary drivers existing is usually 3rd-party proprietary dependencies. E.g. they open sourced AMDVLK by starting with the closed Vulkan driver and replacing the proprietary compiler dependency with LLVM.

brandmeyer on July 21, 2021 | [–]

Much of the AGESA code for booting the system remains hidden.

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