Kroah-Hartman: AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel

I don't know what is the politics of HSA what they decided... but i think they have serious problems... and drivers is not the only concern...

They must have an *Open OS*... for their *Open Standards* -> they are open, all GPL compatible(Double licensing may be used, but also BSD style is used and not only LLVM)

IBM is not in it(doubt ever will, its not its targets, unless they pass to use GPGPUs and stuff for computation, which also doesn't make much sense for them )...

Apple though based on ARM will not go for it, open their OS, even if they join...

Microsoft the same or worst...

BSD are too lacking for "devices & stuff" and getting obsoleted by Linux

*\\It remains only Linux//*

More than drivers, i think it would be wise to see if they could build ALL of an OS, if not almost all of a Distro, using their very comprehensive compiler toolchain... and which could very well be ***much more ARMv8 64 bit centric than x86***.

GCC is in a paradox crosswords as reported by Pharonix, Intel ICC is too CPU centric and will remain as foreseeable, even if they open source it, and worst doubt they will ever target ARM...

Since they set Most of Industry, including the leaders of the client side of computing, ARM Samsung & CE, to build a top nosh compiler toolchain designed specifically for this... one natural candidate might be Android...

But i can't see if Google is up to it, they may decide to go a little like Apple/M$ and target primely their stuff... its Linux based, its some proprietary to, and they might NOT be to take the BURDEN...

HSA is big, they can do it...

So what only remains is fork the Linux kernel itself... I SEE NOTHING HOSTILE IN THIS... IT WOULD BE EXACTLY LIKE *ANOTHER* DISTRO BUT ONE THAT WOULD GO MUCH DEEPER THAN THE USUAL, WITH THE APPLYING PATCHES NOT APPROVED/WAITING MAINLINE... ALL DISTROS DO IT MORE OR LESS...

In the end LF and Linux can also benefit from it, it will be like another branch, and it already maintains several, so another one maintained elsewhere doesn't hurt... and build with HSA CC, and with its driver interfaces, which could be DKMS++ based and used also by many other distros ... and who knows if not useful in the future, who knows about GCC -> can it evolve ?

I'm afraid with the politics not all is rosy, or if anyone can ask more than the remarkable work that has been done so far by the LF, but when the HSA compiler collection is finished, they must find a real USEFUL solution and they would want to really test it with an OS... they will have no other choice, but to find that solution -> you simple don't waste a lot of time expertize and money building something and then not use it...

Don't know politics, but i see it like an addition... not something bad... distros, for everyone that flanked along this years, 2 more seemed to have popped out in its place, many with many peculiarities, everyone trying to be different... what would be the danger of having another one ??...

It would be not an attempt to take over... matter of fact i think exactly like any other distro, they would link LF attentively and try to participate, only they could go very different in a lot of changes...

The GPL is not really suitable for "exclusivity or my way or the highway kind of approaches", who ever thought of that must be desperate or in deep delusion...

In the end i don't know the decisions... but also i don't see many other options...