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   Andrew Engelbrecht (vegantacos@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 04:41:49 JST Andrew Engelbrecht

   The potential lack of an ME or PSP like system in Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors could be quite welcome if users are easily able to modify the open source "Gunyah" hypervisor boot firmware on their device.

   On the other hand, instead of just running a small unknown OS on your CPU, some laptop manufacturers may run a general proprietary OS alongside the one(s) you installed and are using.

   QCOM's intentions and contributions appear to be sincere, but it's not just up to them. Time will tell

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     Andrew Engelbrecht (vegantacos@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 04:41:53 JST Andrew Engelbrecht

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     Here are some of the technical details about Gunyah:

     https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/01/gunyah-hypervisor-software-supporting-protected-vms-android-virtualization-framework

     https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-linux-kernel-support-for-the-snapdragon-x-elite

     https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor

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