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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Qualcomm has, so far, been extremely against upstreaming drivers. Google has told them they can’t touch the kernel anymore over it

If that’s actually changing, it could be huge for a real alternative

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Google doesn't control the Linux kernel.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Google also makes their own silicon now. I wouldn't be surprised if that's caused a change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

They do when Qualcomm wants to use their processors in Android phones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I wouldn't say that, it's just there is a lot in vendor kernels and little incentive to upstream stuff for older SoCs that have already shipped. It's true Google has come around to the importance of not drifting too far from upstream and hopefully we are starting to see the results of that change in attitude.

As I understand it my colleges in the QC landing team @ Linaro spend a lot of time getting stuff into the various upstreams.