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I don't suppose someone could point to more info on this?
by BuildTheRobots 4y ago
I don't suppose someone could point to more info on this?
- r1ch 4y agoIt's the same reason why your home router runs an ancient version of Linux that can never be updated. The hardware requires a proprietary firmware blob that only links with a specific kernel. You can never update the system independently, you're at the mercy of Qualcomm releasing updated blobs.
- babypuncher 4y agohttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits-five-years-of-updates-with-some-help-from-lineageos/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits... Basically Qualcomm only releases proprietary Linux drivers for their chips, provided as a precompiled binary blob, and they only offer ~2 years of support before dropping them all together. Because the Linux kernel does not have a stable binary interface for driver modules, getting an old driver to work with a new version of the kernel can become a hacky nightmare.