[Mesa-dev] Perfetto CPU/GPU tracing

Alyssa Rosenzweig alyssa.rosenzweig at collabora.com
Thu Feb 18 20:26:59 UTC 2021


> But on many other embedded OSes  - at least Google ones like  CrOS and
> Android - the security model is way stricter.  We could argue that is
> bad / undesirable / too draconian but that is something that any of us
> has the power to change. At some point each platform decides where it
> wants to be in the spectrum of "easy to hack" and "secure for the
> user". CrOS model is: you can hack as much as you want, but you need
> first to re-flash it in dev-mode.

Off-topic but, speaking from someone who grew up in the libre software
"purist" circles, I'm a big fan of the CrOS model here.
Draconian is when the user _can't_ put it in dev mode. If you can,
there's nothing wrong with sane defaults


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