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jrmg
35 days ago
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Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC (with...
With the dearth of drivers as described, how do the manufacturers even know that all the hardware works? That there are no flaws in how it’s all wired together? How do they test everything?
Palomides
35 days ago
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the chip manufacturer usually craps out a hacked up android build
dijit
35 days ago
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ok, but, naively... Android is Linux with a userland- so the drivers must exist in some form.
kanwisher
35 days ago
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Android has some ability to have binary drivers that aren't easily reusable for normal linux branches
notpushkin
35 days ago
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Yup. There’s libhybris/Halium which wraps Android drivers for glibc-based Linux distros, but I think it’s more of a hack / stopgap solution.
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