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Also moving away from the Linux kernel will make even harder to find support for the hardware outside of Fuchsia, not to mention no way to repurpose old devices
by squarefoot 5y ago
Also moving away from the Linux kernel will make even harder to find support for the hardware outside of Fuchsia, not to mention no way to repurpose old devices.
If Google really had good intentions beside profits they could promise to open bootloaders and documentation of devices after they're declared obsolete, which wouldn't impact in any way their business, but I don't hold my breath on that.
- Iolaum 5y agoSince Fushia (the OS) is open source I wouldn't be surprised if the community builds a compatibility layer for the binary drivers to run in Linux. It wouldn't be a good thing to end up there though.
- usrusr 5y agoAn alternative perspective would argue that an Android device without a boot breach is already as locked down as it can be, and that the same breach on Fuchsia might give a much easier path to mix and match unchanged components and custom implementations. I don't know which argument carries more weight. Should we expect Fuchsia to take a defense in depth approach to component authentication?
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