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I was working on an embedded system long after that transition happened. The BSP we got from the chip vendor was still targeting 2.4. We had to port all the d
by stusmall 4y ago
I was working on an embedded system long after that transition happened. The BSP we got from the chip vendor was still targeting 2.4. We had to port all the drivers over ourselves. The long tail of old software in embedded world is ridiculous and painful
- mschuster91 4y agoAt least Android did a good job in forcing chipset vendors to keep up their BSPs with recent kernel versions... basically every chipset in use by anything with Android will have a decently modern kernel version. Now, if Google would also enforce open-source compliance... the amount of hoops one has to jump through to get OSS dumps is absurd, and most of these lack critical parts (e.g. build toolchain, kernel config, partition layouts, DTBs) so it's OSS in theory but unusable to develop alternative OSes in practice.