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Exactly. Due to the way that phone manufacturers support Android (which is shit), there are a lot of proprietary drivers/firmwares required that only work on an

Exactly. Due to the way that phone manufacturers support Android (which is shit), there are a lot of proprietary drivers/firmwares required that only work on an ancient kernel. For a true FLOSS-friendly device, the Librem5 seems to be about as close as you can get (though some chips will still run proprietary firmware..)

inawarminister 8y ago
This is going to be fixed in the future by Treble support, FWIW. You'll still have blobs and proprietary drivers/firmwares but they'll be unlinked to Linux kernel versions/Android software versions