Hi Bhushan; what is wrong with using MER? Best, tortoisedoc
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Bhushan Shah <bs...@kde.org> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscribe@lists. > sailfishos.org >
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