Fuchsia overview

Re:Fuchsia overview by CJefferson on Saturday May 30, 2020 @05:48PM (#23365066)

While I understand why you want open source drivers, the situation hasnt improved for 10 years, and this is one of the major reasons many phones end up not getting Android updates, which makes Google/Android look bad.

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Re:Fuchsia overview by est31 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @06:07PM (#23365196)

> the situation hasnt improved for 10 years

But it has.

* I remember having major issues with printer drivers on Linux 10 years ago. Nowadays thanks to IPP support I don't need any drivers any more. I had to help my dad with installing a windows driver while on my Linux laptop it just worked.

* My Laptop from 13 years ago didn't have free network drivers. I had to jump through hoops to install them. Now they are all free.

* AMD has started maintaining really good open source driver support for their GPUs

* Even for Android there is improvement, with e.g. free Mali drivers being built. It's slow and not enough, but improvement.

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Re:Fuchsia overview by rohan1024 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:59AM (#23367554)

> the situation hasn't improved for 10 years

I believe its meant in context of Android.

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Re:Fuchsia overview by pjmlp on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:14AM (#23367837)

> AMD has started maintaining really good open source driver support for their GPUs

Still waiting for them to reach parity for my laptop GPU, it used to be OpenGL 4.1 with hardware video decoding, nowadays I just get OpenGL 3.3 with the open source driver, the antithesis of really good.

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Re:Fuchsia overview by bgorman on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:48AM (#23367737)

I believe the situation is a bit better now that there are LTS releases of the Linux kernel.

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