I apologize if the question is off topic. Here's some context - I was compiling Ubuntu touch for my note 2 and while extracting the proprietary blobs, had all these questions. Would appreciate if you can throw any light.
Do Oems when manufacturing devices have to deal with blobs? e.g. does Apple or Google or Samsung etc. get access to say BCM4334 specifications to write the drivers themselves or does broadcomm provide the source code for device drivers which in turn is optimized by oems or do the oems just have to live with binary blobs? Recently I came across this device, Notion Ink's Adam. The manufacturers were claiming that they weren't able to release an ICS update because nvdia wasn't releasing a camera driver. Is this really possible? When manufacturers ink a deal with hardware makers don't they get access to source code. Thanks.
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