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If the main goal is vendor support, Android is downright awful compared to Linux when it comes to embedded use cases. You can get up to date Linux versions for
by BoorishBears 3y ago
If the main goal is vendor support, Android is downright awful compared to Linux when it comes to embedded use cases.
You can get up to date Linux versions for pretty ancient stuff, but AOSP does zero favors for porting and vendors are more than happy to throw their hands up and leave you fending for yourself, breaking lots of stuff (like the build system) along the way
...but they also raised $30M and landed an extra $10M in their first week of preorders. Between that and the heat behind their name, they weren't hurting for cheap labor.
I think you're ascribing too much intention to their choices, this device feels like they raised a bunch of money, let everyone do their own thing and dumped the result over the wall.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoGood mainline linux support has not been my experience for the kinds of mobile SOCs the Rabbit was inevitably going to be using. Taking a look at the PostmarketOS support page for the mediatek SOC used in the product [0], seems like most of the sleep and radio drivers are not mainlined/supported. Yes, Qualcomm and mediatek drop support after annoyingly few years, but they do provide support before EOL. [0] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/MediaTek_MT6765 https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/MediaTek_MT6765
- BoorishBears 3y agoHaven't mentioning mainline support at all, and I'm speaking relative to Android: vendors that do Linux poorly do Android even more poorly And I wouldn't say that these vendors blanket provide support before EoL. I work on a product where EoL is a very long time due to automotive involvement. The vendor's standard of support is extremely low, with most requests resulting in being pointed to some "partner" which is usually a ragtag team of contractors well versed in some set hacky fixes for the vendor's boards