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What about custom ROMs like Lineage? The only thing holding it back from working on every phone is that many phones have blocks to prevent installing a custom ROM.

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MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The manufacturer has to release the phone’s kernel source code before any custom ROM development can happen for the phone most of the time for that reason.

There is a reason that GrapheneOS only works on a couple of Pixel phones.

Could be just like windows in that it has every driver for every piece of hardware in the package, just bloating it unnecessarily.

Google specifically designed the Android kernel so that the driver are excluded, unlike the normal Linux or Windows kernel, because, long story short, Qualcomm did not want it to happen.

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madscience@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Every device had it’s own device tree and kernel with custom driver’s, binary blinds, and system software. All of it runs beside the closed source modern os

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- balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’m not entirely sure because I’m not very knowledgeable about CPUs, but it seems this is a problem with ARM architectures snd their lack of standardization, isn’t it?
  
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  - madscience@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    There’s nothing like uefi between the os and the hardware
    
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