LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive

Posted Sep 4, 2014 15:20 UTC (Thu) by robclark (subscriber, #74945)
In reply to: LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive by eru
Parent article: LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive

>>Today's ARM hardware is a different matter -- you can't even re-use kernels between different products from the same vendor!
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> That's crazy! I guess we owe a dept of gratitude to IBM and Intel who established de-facto standards for the PC, even though everyone at the time ridiculed it as kludgy!

standardized hw really helps, but this is nothing that can't be solved through software (ie. see upstream work for arm kernel consolidation). The problem is more an issue of "doing it right" vs "doing it right now".. the timescales and market pressures in mobile tip the scales strongly in favor of the latter, and no player in the industry who is in a position to tip the scales back the other way (ie. google/android) chooses to do so.

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LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive

Posted Sep 4, 2014 16:03 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (1 responses)

It is a problem that can be solved because Linux exists. My point is that if Linux didn't exist the effort of developing it from scratch in the ARM world would probably be prohibitive. It is also why the BSDs have made limited inroads into ARM.

LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive

Posted Sep 4, 2014 18:13 UTC (Thu) by robclark (subscriber, #74945) [Link]

> It is a problem that can be solved because Linux exists. My point is that if Linux didn't exist the effort of developing it from scratch in the ARM world would probably be prohibitive. It is also why the BSDs have made limited inroads into ARM.

completely agree.. didn't intend to imply otherwise.