Maybe I haven’t been clear.
I mean that the ports are limited in number, and all on devices that share the same SoC manufacturer, the same CPU architecture (except for the shift to 64 bit), the same camera manufacturer (incidentally the same as the phone manufacturer), yet every time it takes eight months from the availability of the source code to the release of a public version.
I am a hardware developer, and I also write (now less than some years ago) code to run on that hardware. Writing a bare-metal driver for a peripheral is a matter of some days at worst. I can understand that getting the hardware to work in Linux is not quite the same thing, but if Linux stays the same, the CPU stays the same, the peripherals are mostly the same or similar, I cannot make out how can it take that long to develop the HAL to sit between the metal and the OS.
2 Likes