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> is a conscious and opinionated strategy on the part of Linux, as an effort to make the cost of keeping drivers closed-source high. And Qualcomm is probably
by baybal2 6y ago
> is a conscious and opinionated strategy on the part of Linux, as an effort to make the cost of keeping drivers closed-source high.
And Qualcomm is probably very, very happy with this arrangement. They can put a gazillion devs to maintain their BSPs using any means possible, but a small 2nd tier SoC fabbless don't.
- dathinab 6y agoOr you just push it upstream, which solves your problem because whoever is refactoring kernel code is also likely doing the appropriate changes in your code if necessarily.