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what a waste of memory resources, that is what a file system and proper files in /usr/include where invented for a couple of decades ago, also 99% of the users will never need them on the Android phone to start with :-/
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postif android doesn't ship kernel headers, then correct solution is to ship kernel headers, not to bundle them into kernel
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postbecause fuchsia is not successor to linux. no single company can compete with linux. google can't even maintain their fork of linux and are working on merging it back and switching to mainline kernels. fuchsia being successor is just fantasy of uninformed journalists
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That will be more for compiling modules, the headers you want on your system are the sanitized headers that were used for your glibc build (on our PCs with Linux distros anyway). It's better than it used to be, these used to be cleaned up by hand but for some time now the kernel build system has a facility to generate them (currently "make headers_install")
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Originally posted by mifritscher View PostWhy not a squashfs? This way it would be mountable, enabling direct access. a tgz must be decompressed to access the files...
Now, I might ask, why undergo all the trouble of including the kernel headers, and not the kernel sources themselves? *that* would be useful for android devices
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Originally posted by Emmanuel Deloget View PostA typical distro won't need it - it already has a powerful packaging system and a kernel-header package that matches the kernel itself. But embedded devices are a very different beast
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Originally posted by Vistaus View PostBut why would they include this when they're now seriously working on Fuchsia, the successor to AndroidLast edited by pal666; 26 January 2019, 02:58 PM.
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if android doesn't ship kernel headers, then correct solution is to ship kernel headers, not to bundle them into kernel
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Why not a squashfs? This way it would be mountable, enabling direct access. a tgz must be decompressed to access the files...
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Originally posted by Britoid View PostWouldn't this only ever be useful for Android where each device/variant needs a fork of the kernel.
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