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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by derefr on Thursday January 03, 2019 @12:56PM (#18817263)
Maybe Fuchsia uses a lobotomized Linux kernel, together with such firmware blobs, as a (likely sandboxed) monolithic multi-driver?
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by pkaye on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:29PM (#18818355)
The code for the Fuchsia kernel is available. It doesn't seem derived from Linux.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by pm90 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:33PM (#18817701)
How hard is it to rewrite drivers? Or is the problem that companies do not write others write these drivers?
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by simcop2387 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:05PM (#18818102)
Pretty hard, not only is it nearly impossible to get documentation for some of the hardware, even if you get it it'll usually be under some kind of NDA which means you can publish the driver. Then there's all kinds of errata and hardware quirks that aren't going to be in the documentation (maybe in future updates to the documentation) it ends up a full time job for multiple people to maintain just a single driver for a few products.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by hermitdev on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:19PM (#18818896)
> it'll usually be under some kind of NDA which means you can publish the driver.

Did you mean cannot publish?

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by simcop2387 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:43PM (#18820537)
Yep, missed that when reviewing the comment and it's now too late to edit.
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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by hermitdev on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:35PM (#18821242)
No worries. Seemed like that's what you meant, but just wanted to clarify.
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