>Not really. Linux talks to the software written for SoC and it pretends Linux is in control.
Which is how any other Linux distribution works. I'm not sure what your point is here. Hardware exposes an API for the kernel to use it with and that's how it's always worked.
>Android's OS is the firmware on the device
Okay, and no computer's OS is Linux by this standard. This is just a pedantic argument.
Not really. I mean the point is that SoC and modern mobile/server architecture abstract away hardware which makes it so the OS is slowly getting enclaved and isolated from the hardware.
It didn't use to be this way, and pretending everything is the same is doing no one a service.
Which is how any other Linux distribution works. I'm not sure what your point is here. Hardware exposes an API for the kernel to use it with and that's how it's always worked.
>Android's OS is the firmware on the device
Okay, and no computer's OS is Linux by this standard. This is just a pedantic argument.