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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by swiley on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @10:45AM (#27277460)
It's not really true for Android either because the graphics drivers are mostly userspace and end up coupled with a lot of the vendor provided stuff.

Fuchsia has no GPL so it's unlikely any of the driver source will be available to you.

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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by kerneis on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:02AM (#27277730)
> Fuchsia has no GPL so it's unlikely any of the driver source will be available to you.

The open-source repository already contains over 50 directories named `drivers`: https://cs.opensource.google/search?q=f:drivers%2F$&sq=&ss=f...

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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by fabrice_d on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:47AM (#27278348)
Yes, but it's very unlikely that chipset vendors like QC or MTK will provide the source to their drivers. Why would they?

On the other hand, if the driver interfaces are stable, it should be possible to implement a GPL kernel that can use these drivers.

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Re:Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with ... by swiley on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:21AM (#27278009)
The BSDs have lots of drivers too, but it's rare you see them coming to an embedded board first (and rarer you see BSPs published for them from vendors.)
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