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Driver support should not be a problem for Google. They can reuse existing drivers with a rump kernel approach [1]. And on mobile devices, many hardware compon
by jpfr 10y ago
Driver support should not be a problem for Google. They can reuse existing drivers with a rump kernel approach [1].
And on mobile devices, many hardware component vendors provide custom drivers (with binary blobs) anyways. It will not be hard to convince them to support Fuchsia for new hardware releases. If they loose access to Android otherwise...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel
- leoc 10y ago> Driver support should not be a problem for Google. They can reuse existing drivers with a rump kernel approach [1]. "Linux is a free set of buggy device drivers." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8470638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8470638 .
- digi_owl 10y agoMore and more it seems to be the prevailing attitude even within the Linux "community". Just observe how systemd is overruling and countermanding Linux behavior any chance it gets.