Comment by yellow_lead
1 year ago
> Without the Pixel hardware repos (which include the device trees, driver binaries, and more), custom Android ROMs will have a hard time developing their OS updates. This might also have implications for security (vulnerability) researchers.
This concerns me as a GrapeneOS user.
Yup, especially given what they posted: https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1932596516390072669?t=Tw_clE...
Aw man… GrapheneOS makes owning a smartphone bearable. I hope this isn't the beginning of the end.
I really haven't kept up with third party roms for smartphones in a while. I take it graphene is a major player? Last one I heard of was lineage os. I guess I probably need to start looking as my pixel 5a has probably lapsed security updates
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