Thread: Libhybis. Any use to us?
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Hurrian is offline Hurrian
2012-08-22 , 09:50
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Originally Posted by Android_808 View Post
I was quite surprised to not find any discussion about the libhybris announcement for MWKN, and the possibilities it may present by making use of binary files from android devices.

With this, would it make it possible for example to pull in hardware accelerated codecs or updated SGX userland libraries from an Android device for example? Would this in turn allow an updated kernel, based closer on mainline to reduce our existing patchset?

https://plus.google.com/113386402913...ts/9LF6atjc455
We've got all the SGX binary drivers we need, actually.

This is more for porting Mer/glibc-based distros onto Android hardware.

To reduce the number of patches we need to apply, may I suggest going through the awful mess of patches on the MeeGo OBS, figuring out which order we're supposed to apply them, figuring out which patches we're still supposed to apply, and only then submit them for mainlining into Linux.

The patches for 2.6.37 are all over the place, and the fact that kernel build instructions for the N900 HW adaptation is MIA is horribly saddening.
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