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While hacking on postmarketOS off and on for the last year, the #1 issue was always dealing with crappy old kernels from manufacturers with out of tree patches

While hacking on postmarketOS off and on for the last year, the #1 issue was always dealing with crappy old kernels from manufacturers with out of tree patches that would no longer apply to the current mainline. Unfortunately this problem will still exist with the proposal in the article, manufacturers will still be allowed to ship out of tree code. Being able to boot a mainline kernel on your device is practically useless if the code necessary for display, input, audio, etc are out of tree and thrown over the wall by the manufacturer with no intention of keeping it up to date.

bubblethink 8y ago
There was some other news about the display side of things. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pixel-3-Freedreno-MSM-DRM-Plus https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pixel-3-...
ChristianBundy 8y ago
This is even an issue with Chromebooks from Google (e.g. Chromebook Pixel 2015). Sure, it "runs Linux", but how useful is that if you can't put any other distro on it? After a few years we finally got all of the Chromebook-specific patches pushed to mainline Linux, but Google doesn't seem to care about mainline at all.