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[intelfx]

zx2c4 is the author of WireGuard ...

[intelfx]

Hm.

I thought that ChromeOS is only supported on a few select devices so there's not much to gain by reusing hardware-dependent bits from...

[intelfx]

Not saying that you are or aren't wrong, but if so, then what's the point of LOCKDOWN at all? If something is being restricted in the name of security,...

[intelfx]

Well, come back when they do something to non-functional (under Linux) LTE modems that cannot be ever replaced due to firmware-level whitelisting....

[intelfx]

I do. Not just MSRs but PCH BARs too, and not just any regularly, but every 5-30 seconds. Yeah, dethrottling.

Not saying this patchset is...

[intelfx]

Way to go!

Even ThrottleStop on Windows can't do this.

[intelfx]

Lenovo started caring about Linux? The hell's apparently freezing over.

[intelfx]

No, nobody cares about size and amount of library and runtime dependencies (except maybe Slackware and Gentoo users, but that's on them for choosing a...

[intelfx]

That’s exactly the point I’m making. Rewriting proprietary blobs and code drops, turning them into modularized, efficient, generic code is very characteristic...

[intelfx]

Open-source software in a nutshell....

[intelfx]

Okay, this does not count.

But someday... someday....

[intelfx]

Hmm. Which modem do they have there?...

[intelfx]

As it stands now, all desktop applications get hit by exactly the limitation I described. Long story short, you would have to checkpoint the app together...

[intelfx]

Not exactly. You don't strictly have to containerize anything. However, it's impossible to properly checkpoint a process which shares resources or state...

[intelfx]

That'd be CRIU. And it's super damn hard to do properly....