I wonder if driver state is such that you can run a real distro on the Pixel C rather than Android... anyone know?
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Not really. The drivers are meant to work with Android though so running normal Linux is a separate issue.
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i.e. you would end up using things like libhybris to run a non-Android distribution on there.
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I don't follow. Are you talking about userspace drivers?
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Both. The drivers expose the API that Android expects, not the usual desktop stuff like dri3, etc.
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So Android has its own wacky kernel APIs for video devices? Is there at least working /dev/fb0?
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It has /dev/graphics/fb0 and it's probably different. Until dri3 desktop Linux APIs didn't support isolation.
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They did do a lot of NIH but they also NEEDED some stuff and the NIH goes both ways: https://lwn.net/Articles/697191/ ….
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I would hardly call bus1 an example of "both ways" when it doesn't come from kernel folks but the kdbus lobby.
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