Re:We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
by Too on Sunday October 06, 2024 @02:49AM
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With the vendor/system split introduced by project Treble in Android, it should be easier than ever to build your own system against a rich set of hardware abstractions, that work on a wide range of devices. Assuming you are ok with still running a very thick slice of the stack as proprietary vendor image.
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Re:We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
by zozbot234 on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:33AM
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Yes you can run a GSI (and project Droidian does that) but then you're dependent on a downstream kernel and Android-ish early boot environment, that will likely lead to pointless incompatibilities compared to a fully-upstreamed approach.
Re:We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
by pjmlp on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:03AM
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Upstream doesn't care about clang and Rust as much as Google does, so that isn't ever going to happen as much as people vouch for it.
Re:We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
by zozbot234 on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:10AM
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The biggest hurdle to getting AOSP-kernel features into the upstream kernel is not clang or Rust, it's cleaning up hacked-together kernel code in a way that makes it acceptable for upstream maintainers. (And getting rid of userspace blobs for things like graphics.) Always has been for as long as AOSP waz a thing.