I would also like to voice my opinion that bridgman should push the powers-that-be to make DRM less obtrusive in future GPU designs, FWIW.
A wafer run at the size and process we use is millions of dollars, not thousands. The upstream work to redo the back-end design and tape out is probably as much again.
Remember that removing the DRM hardware is not the issue, other than giving the owner of the hardware a nice warm fuzzy feeling. We need to change the programming model of the stuff we keep so that telling you how to program the blocks you WANT to use does not also provide enough information to help someone else bypass the DRM on a system which did support it.
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