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The source of the problem is that OEMs won't go through the effort to get their kernel patches in the main tree. Why won't they?
by 908B64B197 6y ago
The source of the problem is that OEMs won't go through the effort to get their kernel patches in the main tree.
Why won't they?
- eznzt 6y agoBecause it takes a lot of effort, kernel developers will bitch that some of the code is there just to connect to blobs that aren't free, blah blah blah. cf the nvidia situation.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago> kernel developers will bitch that some of the code is there just to connect to blobs that aren't free That seems like a completely legitimate complaint? The whole point of upstreaming code is making it so that the device stays stable, current, and secure. If you just shove all the important bits into a userspace black box that can't be audited or updated, how much did you really gain?
- pjmlp 6y agoThe OEMs gained all the money that they did not spend into R&D an OS. Free beer rulez! Even better, all the free beer OSes competing for a spot on IoT are BSD/MIT/Apache, expect zero contributions to upstream and OEMs to move away from Linux for such scenarios.
- BugsJustFindMe 6y agoThey lack financial incentive to do so.
- Kneecaps07 6y agoBecause they already have your money and don't consider the long-term effect of losing a future customer due to the lack of updates.