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Maybe [1], but then Canonical is aiming at getting Ubuntu into as many phones as possible, and it working with the Android stack is helping in achieving this go
by kklimonda 13y ago
Maybe [1], but then Canonical is aiming at getting Ubuntu into as many phones as possible, and it working with the Android stack is helping in achieving this goal.
[1] On the other hand what would be a benefit of investing into getting drivers work with glibc, other than running your classic Linux distribution?
- shmerl 13y agoOn the other hand what would be a benefit of investing into getting drivers work with glibc To run without any translation layers and bionic quirks. That's the main benefit. When the system is using glibc (like Sailfish and Ubuntu do), and drivers aren't, the only way is to translate it like libhybris does. It's a crutch at best and not ideal. It can perform well, but it's still not direct.
- kklimonda 13y agoWhat are the practical drawbacks of using libhybris? Have there been some benchmarks done yet?
- shmerl 13y agoI guess Jolla engineers would know the most, since they are primarily developing it: * http://mer-project.blogspot.se/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html http://mer-project.blogspot.se/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-and... * http://mer-project.blogspot.se/2013/05/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html http://mer-project.blogspot.se/2013/05/wayland-utilizing-and... But I didn't see any comparative benchmarks published so far. Translation cost might be not critical (i.e. tolerable), but it's still a cost and native approach should be always better.