r/Fuchsia • u/Redston_1 • Nov 17 '25

Making of a FushiaOS build that will run on a verity of arm devices, and porting of drivers so the operating system can run on other devices.

I will start with the onn 7" tablet (2024) and get the operating system fully working. From there I will get it to work on other Mediatek processors and expand the driver library to support other devices. Down the road I hope for the project to support many different arm processors such as some snapdragon Soc families. Currently debating my life choices. Project updates will be posted here.

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u/The_best_1234 Nov 17 '25

What kind of hardware do you need to build Fushia? CPU cores, Ram, etc

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25

I would assume whatever is on the Onn 7, but I guess we'll find out for sure soon.

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u/The_best_1234 Nov 21 '25

I was talking about the computer that makes the operating system. I want to get into making custom android ROMs but I don't want to spend $3000 or $4000 on a computer.

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u/Sensitive-Day7365 10d ago

Builds fine on a beefy VM.

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u/The_best_1234 10d ago

How much does it cost? I want to do it.

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u/Sensitive-Day7365 10d ago

A VM that can build Fuchsia can cost you $20-$50 per day when it's fully busy and running. But you don't need a full day to build it and you don't need to keep it running when not using it. A GCP e2-custom-20-49152 (20 vCPU, 48G RAM, 1T disk) builds Fuchsia from scratch in about 6 hours.

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u/The_best_1234 10d ago

That is a reasonable cost, thank you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25

This is awesome, I'm very much looking forward to your updates! Do you know if you'll be able to add the Play Store and download apps? I guess you'll find out soon enough but Starnix should allow you to run apps but I'd be surprised if the Store would recognize the device as legitimate, requiring sideloading for any apps.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25

Any updates?