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Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phonesCanonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phonesPosted Jan 2, 2013 20:13 UTC (Wed) by shmerl (guest, #65921)Parent article: Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones
> yet it uses the same drivers as Android.
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone
How is it exactly? Or it's Ubuntu UI on top of Android and it's not a real Ubunutu?
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Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 2, 2013 20:56 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Looks like they're using a chrooted Ubuntu with X/Wayland server running on top of SurfaceFlinger. That's been possible for ages.
What's interesting is integration and handoff between two various stacks. Probably they had to write quite a bit of glue code for that.
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 2, 2013 21:45 UTC (Wed) by hp (subscriber, #5220) [Link]
Interesting - where did you find technical info? Did they post code?
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 2, 2013 22:41 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
There was a story on LWN about it a year ago or so.
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 2, 2013 22:57 UTC (Wed) by kklimonda (subscriber, #60089) [Link]
It doesn't seem to be the same project though
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 2, 2013 22:14 UTC (Wed) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]
So far I didn't see any details. May be they are using libhybris or something the like.
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 3, 2013 20:02 UTC (Thu) by sciurus (subscriber, #58832) [Link] That is what they're doing for Ubuntu for Android. Ubuntu for phones is a different product. I suspect that it uses their own userspace with the android kernel.
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 3, 2013 20:22 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]
Somehow this doesn't sound like something I would want to run on any embedded device.. chrooted Ubuntu, X running on top of something else, glue code...
Alex
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