Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support

Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by baybal2 on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:05PM (#26598057)

> is a conscious and opinionated strategy on the part of Linux, as an effort to make the cost of keeping drivers closed-source high.

And Qualcomm is probably very, very happy with this arrangement. They can put a gazillion devs to maintain their BSPs using any means possible, but a small 2nd tier SoC fabbless don't.

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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by dathinab on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:24PM (#26598201)

Or you just push it upstream, which solves your problem because whoever is refactoring kernel code is also likely doing the appropriate changes in your code if necessarily.

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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by cwyers on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:06PM (#26598479)

This assumes that the person making the SoC owns all the rights to the code for their drivers, instead of licensing them from other firms.

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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by bluGill on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:06AM (#26602348)

You can demand those terms when you negotiate the license.

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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by cwyers on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:38PM (#26605867)

And they can say "no" or "money please."

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