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Re:Pinebook ARM Linux Laptop Powered by Allwinner A64 CPU by mwcampbell on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:30PM (#13032578)
I doubt that the primary motivation for Magenta is to eliminate the GPL'd Linux kernel from Android. A much more practical way to do that would be to use one of the BSDs.
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Re:Pinebook ARM Linux Laptop Powered by Allwinner A64 CPU by pjmlp on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:50AM (#13034979)
They also deprecated GCC from the NDK, going forward only clang will be supported.

GCC is still around, because just like it happened with Apple, there are a few features that clang still lacks in order to fully replace it in the context of Android.

Brillo has even less GPL components than Android.

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