[syntheweave]

It's surprising by importance but not by size, which is actually a sweet spot for evaluating a new systems language - a small dependency that everything uses.

[mgaunard]

It's just an Android thing which could arguably be entirely in userspace.

[jeroenhd]

That's something that comes up more often, because many feel this shouldn't be in the kernel in the first place. The problem is that there hasn't been a proper userspace alternative with similar performance characteristics.

I think putting this stuff in the kernel is rather silly, but I'd rather have it in the kernel than bring back the rift between Android and Linux.

[pjmlp]

Given the microkernel-like approach taken by Project Treble, at least some part of it needs to live on the kernel for fast message interchange.