LG Releases Open-Sourced Version of webOS in Hopes To Push It Beyond TVs and Smart Refrigerators (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:40AM from the somebody-please-help dept.

LG has released an open-sourced version of webOS that's freely available to anyone that wants to download and poke around the code. From a report: The release of webOS Open Source Edition is meant to act as a catalyst to drive further adoption of webOS beyond LG televisions, smart refrigerators, and the occasional never-to-be-released smartwatch. So, devices like webOS tablets and set-top boxes as pictured in the LG-supplied image above. This is the second time an open-source version of webOS has been released, the first coming under the failed tenure of HP back in 2011. LG's cross-town rival Samsung develops and uses the open-sourced Tizen operating system on a variety of devices including smartwatches, televisions, Blu-ray players, and robotic vacuums.

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Re: uboot, fastboot & mainline support. by Anonymous Coward · 2018-03-20 03:20 · Score: 1, Informative

Stop crying like normal and go develop the full stack then. Itâ(TM)s not rocket science. Use buildroot. There are kernel, gpu and uboot templates for pretty much every arm platform from the last 10 years. It takes less than an hour to download, configure for chosen platform and compile a kernel, dtb, modules, uboot and rootfs from usually mainline sources. If mainline support isnâ(TM)t there it pulls in the oem bsp.