Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> In the hand-crafted binary example, it would be *possible* to
> do both of those. Notice that the freedom doesn't require it
> to be easy. It's near the border, about where the nv driver was
> accused of being: free but hard to hack. I don't really see how
> you can blanket-ban them from main. As pointed out elsewhere,
> practical concerns usually keeps us away from these edge cases
> and the other few we'll argue about. How are you about the nv
> driver now?

But how do you argue that a hand-crafted binary is sufficiently
modifiable without also admitting the possibility that the output of a C
compiler may be sufficiently modifiable?

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