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Driver support should not be a problem for Google. They can reuse existing drivers with a rump kernel approach [1].

And on mobile devices, many hardware component vendors provide custom drivers (with binary blobs) anyways. It will not be hard to convince them to support Fuchsia for new hardware releases. If they loose access to Android otherwise...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel



> Driver support should not be a problem for Google. They can reuse existing drivers with a rump kernel approach [1].

"Linux is a free set of buggy device drivers." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8470638 .


More and more it seems to be the prevailing attitude even within the Linux "community".

Just observe how systemd is overruling and countermanding Linux behavior any chance it gets.




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