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It's no coincidence that companies that make their own chips have longer support cycles. When a chip is supplied by a vendor and needs to be supported in the k
by bsimpson 3y ago
It's no coincidence that companies that make their own chips have longer support cycles.
When a chip is supplied by a vendor and needs to be supported in the kernel, the whole thing can be EoLed by one stubborn vendor. That's one of the promises of Fuchsia - decoupling hardware support from the rest of the system, so you can keep everything else up-to-date even if Qualcomm tells you to kick rocks.
https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts#updatable https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts#updatable