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> To me it seems everything that you want from Binder is already possible
> with D-Bus. Seems the only missing piece is to create dbus-daemon as a
> kernel subsystem so it is available for all userspace processes from the
> beginning (including init/upstart).

You don't even need that - you can start dbus immediately as part of init
if it makes you happy.