[Aissen]

> Nothing else from Linux kernel is considered part of Android's public API.

Just a bunch of syscalls for apps, that yes, could be reimplemented (the number of re-implementations in the wild actually says how much Linux is becoming a lingua franca of OSes) or virtualized; the whole security model (users/selinux/seccomp) and the toolset.

[pjmlp]

A POSIX replacement for CLI and daemons, without any support for other kinds of workloads.

And for what, on cloud deployments, what matters are language runtimes and type 1 hypervisors, while GL and Vulkan are completely unrelated to Linux kernel.