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Subject: Re: GSoC 2014 - FreeBSD on Android Emulator and (possibly) a phone
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On 23 April 2014 05:16, Sulev-Madis Silber (ketas) <madis555@hot.ee> wrote:
> My excitement of getting FreeBSD to Note 3 quickly vanished when I found
> out that LTE version uses different HW...
> Of course that doesn't mean we should stop porting to Exynos, but...
>
> Damn, why hardware makers need have rules that seem to protect them from
> everyone else except actual competitors?

Because the chip manufacturers have this habit of integrating things
into one IC die.


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