On 2/3/22 11:25 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
Currently, openbsd has no arrayfire port (see: arrayfire.org).
Arrayfire is a computational interface to gpu hardware.
I am not looking for someone to port arrayfire to openbsd -- but I
would like to know if such a port seems viable (are there obvious
failure modes which would likely prevent such a port from succeeding?)
so ... a userland application that goes directly to GPU hardware.
Or...really, ANY hardware. That's kinda a bad thing for security.
As I recall, GPU hardware has access to basically all the RAM in a
computer...so now a userland app could program the GPU to put anything
you wanted in any part of memory?
This doesn't seem to fit very well with the OpenBSD goals.
Nick,
