Request for Inclusion of ashmem, binder, and memfd in the kernel for waydroid support

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Feature Request: Add ashmem, binder, and memfd Support

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Background

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I wanna use Waydroid, which is an Android container designed for Wayland.

Issue

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Waydroid depends on the ashmem and binder kernel modules. In the future, it will transition to using memfd. Most Linux distributions typically ship with ashmem and binder built into the kernel, but this is not the case with Microsoft’s implementation.

I have wrote a script that downloads the kernel, compiles the headers, and loads ashmem and binder. However, this setup tends to break every time i update my ubuntu or Microsoft updates underlying WSL.

Request

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It would be greatly beneficial if you could consider adding for the following to the kernel by default it wont harm anybody but help a lot of us:

• ashmem
• binder
• memfd (for future compatibility)

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it is specially important now as support windows subsystem for android has stopped

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Found '/feature', adding tag 'feature'

[progressive-galib]

@sirredbeard hey Hayden, could you look at this ? as i told you on telegram this would also solve WhitewaterFoundry/Fedora-Remix-for-WSL#226