Hybris or libhybris is a compatibility layer for computers running

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s based on the

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or Musl, intended for using software written for Bionic-based

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systems, which mainly includes

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libraries and

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History

Hybris was initially written by Carsten Munk, a Mer developer, who released it on

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on 5 August 2012 and publicly announced the project later that month. Munk has since been hired by

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as their Chief Research Engineer. Hybris has also been picked up by the

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community for WebOS Ports, by

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for

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and by the AsteroidOS project. In April 2013, Munk announced that Hybris has been extended to allow

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s to use graphic device drivers written for Android. Weston has had support for libhybris since version 1.3, which was released on 11 October 2013.

Features

Hybris loads "Android libraries, and overrides some symbols from bionic with

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" calls, making it possible to use Bionic-based software, such as binary-only Android drivers, on glibc-based Linux distributions. Hybris can also translate Android's EGL calls into Wayland EGL calls, allowing Android graphic drivers to be used on Wayland-based systems. This feature was initially developed by

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's Pekka Paalanen for his Android port of Wayland.

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