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Comment by yjftsjthsd-h

10 months ago

> They are relying heavily on mesa

Isn't mesa portable? Or are there parts that are OS-specific?

> With android, they'd also still have GNU stuff available.

I don't follow; Android is a non-GNU Linux distro. Or do you mean that being on Linux makes GNU stuff easy? (But then, GNU runs happily on BSDs and other unix-likes)

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yellowapple  10 months ago

> Isn't mesa portable? Or are there parts that are OS-specific?

Even the OS-specific parts are at least permissively-licensed. OpenBSD is about as religious about "all new code must be under an ISC-compatible license" as it gets, and even they pull in Linux DRM/Mesa code for hardware graphics acceleration: https://man.openbsd.org/drm.7

cogman10  10 months ago

> Isn't mesa portable? Or are there parts that are OS-specific?

IDK. I'm not familiar with mesa enough to know how portable it is. That said, I do know that it's primarily deployed on linux. An issue with portability is simply that when big projects like mesa are developed, non-linux environments are rarely developed (No clue, for example, if you can build mesa for BSD).

> Or do you mean that being on Linux makes GNU stuff easy?

Mostly this. I don't think, for example, those GNU tools will port over to redox. Building them targeting android is a snap.