Hello everyone, To introduce, I am Bhushan Shah from KDE, Plasma Mobile maintainer and in CC: Marius Gripsgård, is founder and maintainer of project UBports, Toxip is part of Sailfish OS Fan Club group on telegram.
Earlier it was suggested to our projects that we should collaborate with other communities working on making GNU/Linux available to android phones, and that idea made lot of sense to us. Below is some details about the current situation and how this idea aims to solve it. Currently Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS/Mer, Plasma Mobile and others have different android source trees and methods on how our stacks are built. There is lot of fragmentation on the following areas, - Android source tree - How android init is started (droid-hal-init vs lxc container vs chroot etc..) - How images are flashed to device, (flash cm first v/s flash system directly) - ... But ideally these parts wouldn’t need to be separate, because we all have the same goal in the end. Each OS make use of android binary drivers using projects like libhybris, ofono, libcamera, audioflinger glue etc. Instead of being fragmented and everyone having to do the same job in a different way we have come up with idea to have a common base for all the OSs. The common base would include Linux kernel + Android HAL + libhybris shared between all the OSs. Less fragmentation would mean more common resources and would be a huge boon for porting efforts. This kind of approach would have the following benefits, - Shared porting effort, port once and use everywhere - More streamlined HAL - Makes it easier for other distributions to run on mobile devices - Common ground for communication between the different projects Currently this project idea is codenamed Halium. Overall idea for the project is drafted at the https://tinyurl.com/halium, and our communication channels are at matrix channel #halium:disroot.org or at IRC channel #halium@freenode or at telegram group https://t.me/halium. (All of these communication channels are bridged together, so you can choose whatever suits the best for you). If you’re interested in this kind of collaboration or have any comments or questions, please join one of our communications channels or reply to this message. We will be happy to answer to any kind of questions. We are looking forward to your feedback and collaboration. The Halium team -- Bhushan Shah http://blog.bshah.in IRC Nick : bshah on Freenode GPG key fingerprint : 0AAC 775B B643 7A8D 9AF7 A3AC FE07 8411 7FBC E11D
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