Qualcomm Posts Linux Driver Patches For New "Gunyah" Hypervisor

[skierpage]

It's surprising Qualcomm is writing this in C and Python and not Rust. The rust-vm crates for running virtual machines are the basis of Amazon's Firecracker, Google's crosvm, and a dozen other hypervisor projects.

[linuxgeex]

I suppose the silver lining is the phone hackers can target the hypervisor to hopefully get full control of the device and use that to get around a lot of the root limitations.

It will probably do the opposite - keep a locked boot loader where the manufacturer maintains some control over the lowest privilege level including NSA backdoor, meanwhile it can be rooted and have other OS installed, but doing so doesn't disable the backdoor. Think Intel ME.

[skeevy420]

It will probably do the opposite - keep a locked boot loader where the manufacturer maintains some control over the lowest privilege level including NSA backdoor, meanwhile it can be rooted and have other OS installed, but doing so doesn't disable the backdoor. Think Intel ME.

Thanks for tuning my half full glass into a half empty glass