| ▲ | RobotToaster 4 hours ago |
| It wouldn't surprise me if they're full of binary blobs |
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| ▲ | jsheard 4 hours ago | parent [-] |
| They are, but that's hardly unique to Qualcomm. Tons of hardware with "proper" upstream Linux drivers still requires closed-source firmware blobs, and in particular with anything wireless that's probably an unwinnable battle due to regulatory constraints. |
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| ▲ | saidinesh5 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Closed source firmware is one thing that actually runs outside the Linux system... but there's also the user space libraries that are needed to interact with the drivers (eg libgl etc... or the vendor partition in most Android phones) | | |
| ▲ | surajrmal 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't think anyone expects non specialized os images to run on this hardware. That would require a standardized userspace abstraction layer like the one Android has been building out. The kernel is just a tiny piece of what's necessary because drivers have effectively moved into userspace. Graphics is the only area that has embraced this properly in "desktop Linux" | | |
| ▲ | tr45872267 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | >That would require a standardized userspace abstraction layer like the one Android has been building out
Can you expound on this? And can desktop linux take advantage of it or do something similar? |
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