Aug 8, 2013 by Henk-Jan Buist
8 Aug. 2013 by Henk-Jan Buist
News – Qualcomm refuses to supply to support Android so completely open source firmware. The administrator of the source code is the lack of hardware integration and get sat on.
The administrator of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) gives up to. He is tired of the hardware integration remains and that complaints about always end up on his plate. “It makes no sense to manage that on his official flagship can not boot from a lack of GPU support an operating system,” writes Jean-Baptiste Queru on Google+.
Lack of hardware integration
Thus he points the finger at hardware vendors that remain with supporting firmware. For the current official Android flagships, bearing the name Nexus, that chipmaker Qualcomm. This giant cell offers SoC if the Snapdragon for a large part of the Android devices.
manages the AOSP source code freely available version of Android developers and manufacturers use. The base operating system is free and freely available, a license must be purchased from the company for the services of Google. At the AOSP systems are as Baidu Yi’s and Amazon’s Android based. The AOSP is completely free and not bound by the same rules as the Open Handset Alliance.
Rumbling in AOSP
But application developers use this source material to provide a bare Android version. test aircraft The rumbling for a while in the project. Late last year, the images of the new primal Android Nexus 4 download portal disappeared. To questions about the reason for this Queru then replied that he could not comment.
Query now says it has no sense to continue to manage, “the AOSP mainly because I get blamed for something I did not have the authority to address the problem that I saw coming to solve and six months ago escalated have. “This administrator refers to the problems he has encountered with the hardware integration.
Qualcomm delivers not
Android Police watched earlier comments Query that even though it was negative about the delivery of firmware for the Nexus One, which was also equipped with a Qualcomm chipset. The aircraft then came from Samsung and were equipped with Samsung’s own Exynos in the Nexus S and a Texas Instruments OMAP SoC in the Galaxy Nexus.
Why Qualcomm firmware under the cap does is not officially known, although it is clear that it is a legal issue is about intellectual property. Therefore it seems very likely that Qualcomm developed its own firmware does not want to associate with the open source source code.
hardware and software management
Users on Google+ jokes that Query can better switch to Ubuntu. Ubuntua maker Canonical wants the Edge precisely around this issue, both the hardware and the software to open and maintain in-house. The first Edge will have some proprietary hardware drivers, said Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth, but in the next version which should disappear and the unit must be fully open.
It remains to be seen whether the Ubuntu Edge ever comes. The crowdfunding project remains quite stabbing and has reached a quarter of its goal of $ 32 million after two weeks. Schedule would be.
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