What GPU does it use? Is it a native GPU driver + Mesa or you use it with libhybris and Android blobs? Wayland is neat, but it's pretty annoying when there are no native drivers available. One of the problems with Android is, that it became like Windows of the past. Hardware makers produce Android drivers with closed userspace blobs, and leave it at that. Blobs built against bionic make running a proper glibc Linux on such devices a pain unless hacks like libhybris are deployed, or you manage to replace them with proper open drivers.
"AsteroidOS is built upon a rock-solid base system. Qt 5.6 and QML are used for fast and easy app development. OpenEmbedded provides a full GNU/Linux distribution and libhybris allows easy porting to most Android and Android Wear watches."
AFAIK, Hybris isn't just for the GPU and is used to port various binary Android drivers to ubuntu touch, sailfish, tizen, luneos etc as can be seen from the following chart:
Yes, it can be used any time there is a need for blob that depends on bionic and there is no open replacement. May be for touchscreen driver in this case? That's why it's such a mess with Android only hardware.
No idea why Tizen needs it though. Samsung can afford writing normal drivers for all their hardware.
