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Who controls which hardware state is increasingly unclear
Original: On modern hardware, who handles what bit of hardware state can be unclear https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/
A technical blog post argues that on modern hardware it is no longer clear which component — the CPU, firmware, chipset, or operating system — actually manages a given piece of hardware state. The author notes that responsibility has grown opaque as systems layer virtualization, power management and device firmware on top of one another, making low-level behavior hard to reason about even for experienced developers.
Why now: The post resonates with developers and systems programmers grappling with increasingly opaque, layered hardware abstractions.
Chris SiebenmannUniversity of Toronto
Evidence
- On modern hardware, who handles what bit of hardware state can be unclear https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/HardwareWhoHandlesWhatNotClear # Tech # Hardware # Computing · lobsters@robot.villas · 3
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