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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by daveloyall on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:14PM (#12860567) 

    *> it does use android drivers*
...Wait a minute, that sounds like something I can do, too!

I'm a LFS[0] kind of guy. I'm also just as opposed to proprietary driver blobs as the next guy...

But, for the purpose of getting more use out of my existing phone... I guess I can just root the thing and copy some kernel modules off, eh? Nice.

0: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by shmerl on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:21PM (#12860591)
See

* https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris

* https://sailfishos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SailfishOS...

Lot's of that is rather generic. Plasma Mobile is using the same libhybris to interface glibc system with blobs built for bionic (Android) libc.

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