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> Fuchsia to start providing a stable driver application binary interface (ABI) for at least six months for downstream products that use drivers compiled throug
by saidinesh5 3y ago
> Fuchsia to start providing a stable driver application binary interface (ABI) for at least six months for downstream products that use drivers compiled through the SDK. This confirms the platform's commitment to delivering reliable and long-lasting driver support.
6 months counts as "long-lasting" these days?
- geodel 3y agoIn Google Universe yes.
- laweijfmvo 3y agoWasn't this one of the key complaints with Linux that drove the creation of Fuchsia? Hopefully they're targeting more than 6 months eventually!
- saidinesh5 3y agoYup, I thought so too. I mean 6 months is not even long enough to be development time for 1 major version of Android... They also cancelled plans to bring / maintain Chrome on Fuchsia this year. So not sure what their plans are with this OS anymore.
- refulgentis 3y agoThe team has been absolutely decimated and its essentially abandonware to Google at this point (i.e. runs on the Nest Hub ghosts ships). The long term story sold to the young and fresh-faced, you can kind of smell through the roadmap, RISC-V.
- surajrmal 3y agoBaby steps. Committing to very long term horizons without sufficiently investing in your ability to uphold the necessary guarantees is challenging. Done poorly, we would either be unable to continue to evolve the platform or end up breaking things accidentally.
- summerlight 3y agoThis is a system still in an active development phase, so I suppose they cannot commit to something like 5 years at this moment? Unlike API, ABI stability is a really hard thing to guarantee and it will haunt you to the end of eternity when you make a mistake.