Re: arrayfire?

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,