Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space?

[Richard Yao]

> The impact of the bug won't also reduce, on most cases, as the userspace driver
> will very likely require root capabilities.

This is incorrect. root capabilities can be isolated via security
frameworks like SELinux. Ring 0 code cannot.
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