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ARM doesn't have any initialization/boot standard enforced on phone manufacturers so everyone is doing their own and never upstreams anything. It's a general AR
by storus 6mo ago
ARM doesn't have any initialization/boot standard enforced on phone manufacturers so everyone is doing their own and never upstreams anything. It's a general ARM problem. PC with some lucky coincidence avoided that fate and we got used to it. RISC-V is in even worse shape than ARM as the fragmentation is even at the CPU instruction level. Both ARM and RISC-V have some discussions/proposed standards but nothing enforced anywhere.
- palata 6mo agoInteresting insights, thanks! If I may ask: is that a reason to prevent me from unlocking, adding custom keys and relocking the bootloader? It feels like you are talking about the implementation details below that. I don't really mind if it is different, I just want a common API, and it seems like whatever is done on the Pixel phones is totally fine. Why not make that mandatory for all manufacturers?
- fsflover 6mo agoNevertheless, postmarketOS manages to run Linux without Android on quite a few phones.
- fsflover 6mo agoLink for the downvoters: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices.