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The real irony is that Android might as well run on a microkernel, considering no OEM has any intention of ever making their firmware work on anyone else's hardware. Everyone's ROMs would be more or less just as incompatible as they are now, but at least they'd be faster and much more secure at the kernel level.



>but at least they'd be faster

The problem with microkernal's isn't compatibility, it's speed.


http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2016/01/01/0/


QNX, Genode and L4 have solved that problem longtime ago.

The problems with microkernels are mostly urban legends.


So why can't hurd get its act together?


Because they're still using Mach, and most capable contributors moved on to microkernel-based projects that actually aren't hopeless.


Lack of volunteers.


Lack of resources and manpower.


Google's working on Fuchsia. This might be exactly their plan.




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