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What happened to that? Have we seen any positive effect stemming from that? I haven't heard much about it since.
by jplayer01 7y ago
What happened to that? Have we seen any positive effect stemming from that? I haven't heard much about it since.
- pjmlp 7y agoIt is now the modern way to publish drivers for Android, either in Java or C++, implemented as kind of micro kernel architecture, where drivers get each their own process, and talk to the Linux kernel via Android IPC. Classical Linux drivers are considered legacy on Trebelized devices. https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hal#hal-module https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hal#hal-modu... The big problem is that in spite of having a standard ABI, Google does not require OEMs to actually push updates, so everything stands as before for consumers, while OEMs have even lower development costs.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoIt is the abstraction layer that will let Google swap in Fuchsia and de-GPL their platform.