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> There isn't an official LOS Treble build (for various reasons) could someone share what those reasons are?
by ATsch 7y ago
> There isn't an official LOS Treble build (for various reasons)
could someone share what those reasons are?
- e12e 7y agoLooks like the gsi (general system image) that vendors need to boot to demonstrate treble compatability - is mostly tested for exactly just booting/starting. So any phone that supports treble will boot gsi/boot an image derived from gsi - but not all phones will work with gsi - for a meaningful definition of "work as a full android phone". In other words treble/gsi seems to be a bit of a half-measure - and if you "port" à given rom to treble/gsi - it still will only work on some subset of treble phones :'( This is what I gleaned from some searching, anyway: https://www.xda-developers.com/unofficial-lineageos-17-gsi-released-project-treble-compatible-devices/ https://www.xda-developers.com/unofficial-lineageos-17-gsi-r... (after first finding this, and being a bit confused): "Changelog 16 - Smart Styles, Treble is trouble and Omfg Oreo" https://www.lineageos.org/Changelog-16/ https://www.lineageos.org/Changelog-16/
- zozbot234 7y agoThere's also annoying variations in GSI's - you need separate images not just for 32-bit vs. 64-bit but for A-only vs. A+B boot support, and sometimes for different "base AOSP" releases - GSI's for devices that shipped with Aosp versions 8.x, 9.x, 10.x are not always guaranteed to work consistently.