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> ...owing to the horrific mess that is their kernel situation. Do you mean OEM drivers or the Android Kernel, specifically? Google invests quite a bit on har
by ignoramous 2y ago
> ...owing to the horrific mess that is their kernel situation.
Do you mean OEM drivers or the Android Kernel, specifically?
Google invests quite a bit on hardening the (Android Commons) Kernel including compile-time/link-time & runtime mitigations (both in hardware & software).
Ex: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/control-flow-integrity-in-android-kernel.html https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/control-fl...
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoThe drivers; last I heard, literally every Android device on the market was using a forked kernel in order to support its hardware. And Google keeps trying things to improve that situation, but... https://lwn.net/Articles/680109/ https://lwn.net/Articles/680109/ was ~9 years ago and since then not even Google themselves have managed to ship a device running a mainline kernel. Supposedly it should get better with their latest attempt to just put drivers and user space, but 1. I haven't heard of any devices actually shipping with an unmodified kernel, probably because 2. AIUI that doesn't cover all drivers anyways.