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If you upstream your drivers then the people who change interfaces also fix the modules that use those interfaces. The problem is SoC manufacturers that don't
by dmm 10y ago
If you upstream your drivers then the people who change interfaces also fix the modules that use those interfaces.
The problem is SoC manufacturers that don't want to put in the work to upstream drivers.
- dispose13432 10y ago>The problem is SoC manufacturers that don't want to put in the work to upstream drivers. They don't _open source_ their drivers.
- NoGravitas 10y agoMany (most?) of them do open source their drivers. But even then, no one is willing to do the work to upstream them.
- dispose13432 10y agoReally? Where is the full Samsung blobless kernel?
- yareally 10y agoThey sometimes release the driver blobs so you don't have to rip them off the device, but rarely have I heard of drivers being open sourced outside of a few scattered instances.