Move the drivers out of the kernel and Linux would have died long ago as there would have been a proliferation of proprietary drivers that stopped being maintained once the hardware was no longer on sale.
They're still in the kerenel AFAIK, but you need to compile the kernel specifically with a bunch of source-restricted or binary blobs to get things to work.
They're not open and maintained as part of the broader kernel release which is why the driver situation degrades so quickly once the hardware is no longer actively supported.
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Isn't this basically the situation on Android?
They're still in the kerenel AFAIK, but you need to compile the kernel specifically with a bunch of source-restricted or binary blobs to get things to work.
They're not open and maintained as part of the broader kernel release which is why the driver situation degrades so quickly once the hardware is no longer actively supported.