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[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

android emulators can ship their own userland drivers, this is how a lot of android emulators ship turnip drivers which boast expanded vulkan feature support and sometimes better performance. and considering the open source nature, i can easily see someone porting it for rom usage especially considering how much of a meme mali drivers are on android and emulation community