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Don't underestimate corporate paranoia when it comes to protecting exclusive licence based console developement.

IronPeter wrote: << Game console does not need common GAPI abstraction layer. At least this abstraction layer must be modified ( like DirectX on Xbox 360 ) to reflect hardware. Custom GAPI can be very well tuned for custom hardware. >> I think you are on a slippery slope here... If you start aiming ...

While there, I wanted to point out that it's not actually a security hole :-) The cell chip has an iommu that protects the hypervisor, whatever DMA you can do will only land in linux partition space afaik. I think when linux registers it's memory with the GPU (some HV call at one point, no source at...