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[cpeterso]

What information gleaned from Qualcomm code would actually be useful or applicable to Intel improving their totally different hardware?

[tjalfi → cpeterso]

Device drivers and firmware often contain workarounds for bugs in other products.

Here[0] is an example from Windows Vista.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060330-31/?p=...

[perlgeek → cpeterso]

Anything that interfaces with the outside world (LTA, NFC, Wifi, Bluetooth, ...) or that interfaces with the same components.

There are also problems that tend to come up again and again, even in different systems, like stuff related to caching, power management etc.