What is Zircon?

Sahil Mehta
Sahil Mehta

Posted On: Apr 06, 2020

 

Zircon is a kernel that powers the Fuchsia OS. It is composed of microkernels and other ser of drivers, libraries, and userspace services which are necessary for different operations like system booting, hardware communication, loading userspace processes and running them, etc. Formally called Magenta, Zircon kernel is used by Google to build the Fuschia OS from scratch.

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