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2014-09-30 , 21:23
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
only the upper layers of the Android stack
Potato, tomato
One might argue that Sailfish already contains the "lower layers", and that Alien Dalvik brings the "upper layers", except that they don't actually talk to the Sailfish lower layers but rather to Alien's "emulated lower layer".

I don't plan to make any effort to hide this because it is the sad truth. It is a compromise that I wish it need not have been done. In a scale of priority, however, I put it as less important than releasing all the Sailfish sources and ... GPLv3 bash . Just because I can imagine the difficulty involved.

Originally Posted by bluefoot View Post
This is *perhaps* not entirely true. Meizu have their Ubuntu pre-loaded MX4, and Ubuntu ROM for existing MX4 users coming in December. It's possible that Mediatek has produced native drivers for Linux, rather than using their existing Android ones and running it through libhybris (which Ubuntu also uses). This is a very high volume device from a big OEM. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that drivers for the main SoC will be native (though I'm sure everything else will be Android).
Actually it is beyond the realms of possibly to think that Ubuntu will get native drivers. Specially not from Mediatek to begin with.

I was not lying when I mentioned all remaining non-Android phones all have subforums on this website.

Ubuntu Touch is Android (libhybris)-based too, as is Firefox OS (the later being 'more Android' than Ubuntu or Sailfish).
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