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Re:The Google Nest Hub is first commercial Fuchsia device by pjmlp on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:14AM (#27286998)
The point is not to produce better drivers, rather a stable driver interface.

It is no accident that Project Treble drivers follow a similar mikrokernel approach to Fuchsia.

On Android, after Project Treble, classical GNU/Linux drivers are considered legacy mode drivers.

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hal

Fuchsia is the next step.

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Re:The Google Nest Hub is first commercial Fuchsia device by cbolton on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:02AM (#27290592)
I wonder if a stable driver interface could also result in higher driver quality: if the same driver keeps working across many versions, even with relatively few users it could aggregate incremental improvements from various parties?
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