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Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012

Posted Feb 28, 2012 1:15 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012 by geuder
Parent article: Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012

As long as the design architecture explicitly includes proprietary daemons running on the CPU (as opposed to the Baseband processor), I certainly will not be interested in this initiative. The UI and other bits might be interesting to port to FSO though.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Architecture
http://freesmartphone.org/

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Posted Feb 28, 2012 6:07 UTC (Tue) by alison (✭ supporter ✭, #63752) [Link]

It's fascinating that B2G is based on bionic rather than glibc. Note for example that the architecture includes gralloc, rild and libstagefright rather than the glibc equivalents. Thanks to Pabs for the links.

B2G using bionic instead of glibc

Posted Feb 28, 2012 8:17 UTC (Tue) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link]

As far as I understand, this choice is not made for legal reasons (ie. not because Mozilla want to reduce the use of (L)GPL licensed code) but for purely technical reasons. They want to convince hardware makers that the code that will be running on the devices is as close as possible to Android, so that no extra effort is required in hardware to support B2G.