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Yeah- this is the only reason there's any openness at all in the mobile space right now. Android forks couldn't exist at all - much less postmarketOS - if the u
by _bxg1 8y ago
Yeah- this is the only reason there's any openness at all in the mobile space right now. Android forks couldn't exist at all - much less postmarketOS - if the underlying hardware and drivers weren't open and available.
- viraptor 8y agoThe underlay hardware and drivers are currently mostly closed and unavailable. Especially the radios. That doesn't stop postmarketOS.
- _bxg1 8y agoSurely it still relies on some of the same mechanisms that allow you to flash custom bootloaders and ROMs?
- viraptor 8y agoA lot of bootloading / unlocking has been figured out by reverse engineering closed systems. It turns out Google is one of the few ones providing easy tools to do this on nexus / pixel phones, even though they didn't have to. They still provide the binary drivers/firmware from upstream because there's no replacement for those.