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We fixed the iPhone 15.
🇳🇱🇪🇺Jeroen🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦@frameworkcomputer Do all these actually function? As in: Apple actually includes drivers for generic USB devices in iOS?
Alex L 🕊 🇵🇸@jeroen94704 @frameworkcomputer
iOS uses the same kernel¹ as MacOS so it is not that surprising, just like Android using the Linux kernel.
1: a kernel is the part of an OS that bridges the hardware with the rest of the software; the concept overlaps with that of drivers.
@alxlg @frameworkcomputer I seem to recall macOS uses a fork of the FreeBSD kernel, although I don’t know if that’s still the case. I guess it’s just surprising they didn’t optimize iOS’s storage and/or memory footprint by simply leaving out all those drivers. A Linux install can be significantly reduced in size simply by disabling anything you don’t need in the kernel config.
@frameworkcomputer @alxlg But hey, who am I to complain!? It’s awesome this works, right?
@jeroen94704 @frameworkcomputer
Would such optimization really being worth? Cause AFAIK the Linux kernel is almost the same everywhere, from servers to embedded devices.
@alxlg @frameworkcomputer The core of the kernel is indeed always (practically) the same. But before it gets built it is configured to in/exclude a boatload of subsystems and devices/device classes. Tuning this to exclude stuff your embedded device doesn’t need is part of the process of getting to a distribution that’s as small and lightweight as possible. A full Ubuntu install is several GB, but this can be reduced to a couple 100 MB quite easily and even less with more effort.
The Linux kernel compiled is a handful of megabytes (yeah that's incredible); what makes a desktop distribution GB-sized is everything else; the kernel size is irrelevant compared to the rest. And the hardware support is in the kernel.
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@jeroen94704 @frameworkcomputer most of these are things Apple has made official accessories for in the lightning days. You’d be surprised what all iOS ports support.
@puzzler @frameworkcomputer I am indeed (pleasantly) surprised 😀.