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A interesting effort by Ubuntu that could have potentially enriched the ecosystem for users but hardware and drivers in the tightly closed Arm and Google ecosys
by throw2016 10y ago
A interesting effort by Ubuntu that could have potentially enriched the ecosystem for users but hardware and drivers in the tightly closed Arm and Google ecosystem is a significant challenge. Or we would be able to install Linux on our devices ourselves.
Its curious these devices work flawlessly with Android but cannot even boot with Linux. Or if it boots none of the functionality works.
The drivers are there and they work on 'Linux' just fine but somehow they are never available on Linux. Folks here get worked up about insignificant chinese companies when this is totally in the control of Arm and Google.
Its now tiring to see open source developers struggle incessantly to get information from ARM for over 5 years and the ball is kicked from ARM to the OEM both claiming the other has denied permission and this goes on. There are always promises and excuses but never any results.