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Sounds like project treble. I don't know how much of a success it has been, and I don't think it has been used to multiboot a phone or to boot a more standard
by ccouzens 4y ago
Sounds like project treble.
I don't know how much of a success it has been, and I don't think it has been used to multiboot a phone or to boot a more standard Linux.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes-treble-modular-base-for.html https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes...
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoYeah, this is exactly what GSIs are meant to do - see https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/ https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/ for a nice wiki talking about taking advantage of that. I thought mobian was distributing a GSI to do non-Android on the Android base, but I can't seem to find it if they do that. Also, bear in mind that this almost intentionally doesn't solve some support problems - any bugs/vulnerabilities in the base layer won't get fixed by GSIs (which is why DivestOS says it explicitly doesn't ship a GSI).
- zozbot234 4y agoDroidian is the GSI-based project from the Mobian folks. Note that GSI's are not totally unified; they'll still vary by CPU architecture, starting Android version shipped with the device, weird features like "A" or "A+B" boot, etc.