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That means also that we can receive support from ODM and chipset vendors when there are problems in those pieces.
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And we know that those drivers are working today, as in, they are known to be working and are performant.
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We re-use as much as we can from the HW software deliveries. This causes us to focus at what we’re good at: delivering a great UI experience for our users, making great interfacing towards the chipset vendor + ODM software deliveries and to build an operating system platform. We can only hope that one day through sheer volume of Sailfish OS devices, adapting hardware directly for Sailfish OS by chipset vendors and ODMs will be the norm. We’ve tried this before and it was not a good experience. Especially parts like modems, GPUs or cameras, and embarking on a journey to enable custom Sailfish OS adaptations for certain chips is not a direction we want to go. We do not have the capacity to write native Sailfish OS drivers for many parts of the devices.
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Which in turn means that in order to bring those camera images into your UI, you need to render with Android GPU drivers. if you are using camera drivers made for Android, you have to leverage their software infrastructure for graphical buffer allocation.
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The driver infrastructure of Android is very tightly integrated together, e.g.
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One of the main advantages of Sailfish OS is that it is able to leverage existing drivers for Android through a technology called “libhybris”. It is very hard or near impossible to find a competitive price and effort-wise hardware with fully open drivers. It is the norm in the industry that these specific software deliveries contain a majority of closed source parts that are not possible to share outside Jolla and the ODM. This is the case with the Jolla Tablet as well: we have drivers for Android matching the hardware. This is a very real pain for non-Android OS’s: You can of course try to get custom drivers matching your particular OS, but this involves a lot of money, support from chipset manufacturers, a lot of pain and time that could be used instead to make your tablet experience greater. The situation is however today in the mobile industry that while you can get a great hardware design and a stable software delivery matching this hardware, these software deliveries are typically drivers for Android. When you receive a piece of hardware from an ODM, you don’t just get a blank device with an empty disk, you get a hardware design along with a bunch of software components that fits with the specific hardware of the device. Like many other companies, we are working together with an ODM (a company that manufactures a product as specified by its customer company) to produce the Jolla tablet. Do note this does not mean that our developers can’t already develop things (we have the Jolla phone, SDK emulator, etc), but it’s much better to develop using the target device to get the experience right from the start. The duty to make this happen is that of the hardware adaptation team. show an UI with Sailfish OS, take a picture or play a sound. Because it’s no fun developing with a device that can’t e.g.
It may get a bit long and technical, but feel free to ask to have some things elaborated further if you want.īefore our designers, care, marketing, program management, infrastructure, testers, UI coders, core and middleware developers can really truly do their work, we need to give them some hardware with a combination of Sailfish OS and a hardware interfacing on to develop, prepare test, design and experiment on. It is our hope that this will give you an unprecedented view into the world of how you build some parts of a tablet. Hardware adaptation is the activity in which we tie Sailfish OS together with a piece of hardware and the drivers for it. This is the first post in many about our hardware adaptation project for the Jolla Tablet. In computer technology the term (usually shortened to booting) usually refers to the process of loading the basic software into the memory of a computer after power-on or general reset, especially the operating system which will then take care of loading other software as needed.” -Wikipedia “In general parlance, bootstrapping usually refers to the starting of a self-sustaining process that is supposed to proceed without external input.
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