[cyxxon]

Saw this on their page:

"Unlike the NT™, system does not feature a separate Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) between the physical hardware and the rest of the OS. Instead, XT architecture integrates a hardware specific code with the kernel. The user mode is made up of subsystems and it has been designed to run applications written for many different types of operating systems. This allows us to implement any environment subsystem to support applications that are strictly written to the corresponding standard (eg. DOS, or POSIX)."

[monocasa]

Modern NT builds haven't really been using the HAL the same way either. It's been a pain because windows on arm kernels have been pretty tied to Qualcomm hardware so far.

[ComputerGuru]

This is an ARM issue, not a Windows one. Same reason Linux needs device tree overlays.

[DidYaWipe]

"Instead, XT architecture integrates a hardware specific code with the kernel."

Isn't this a bad idea?

[ffsm8]

I'm not taking with authority here, but isn't Linux doing it like that, too?

When you're compiling the kernel you're able to toggle various hardware flags to add to the compilation.

And AMD graphics cards generally work better then NVIDIA (on Linux) because the official drivers have been upstreamed vs Nvidias that haven't

[SpecialistK]

It's a little hard to follow, but I'm thinking more monolithic kernel than "hybrid"?