Comment by esperent
9 days ago
Supported devices:
Xiaomi pad 5/6
Oneplus 6/6T
... That's it.
Does anyone know if there's plans for more? Is this project in very early stages, or is it going to be another Graphene OS with an extremely limited device support?
GrapheneOS has such low count of devices due to strict support for security features reasons.
These projects (Linux on mobile) are even more limited due to very poor support from the manufacturer for anything more than OEM and device specific build of Android, with lack of standards in mobile platforms. Every device support is reverse engineering effort. See https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices for the status of this effort.
There's also Poco F1, we just haven't released it yet, and I am yet to add it to the docs (we'll have a single common image for both op6(t) and beryllium soon)
There's also a person working on a Fairphone 5 support and I think someone was going to work on a PinePhone port
Contributions are always welome, we need more devices!
Just out of curiosity (not knowing anything about the complexity of adding new devices) what makes the support of a Xiaomi pad 5 and pad 6 possible, while there is not support for the pad 7 and 8?
Are these devices so different that none of the testing and development work is transferable to the newer devices?
And, reversing the question, if one was to be the owner of a such a Xiaomi device, what can be done to help them being supported?
No shade meant by the way, I fully understand how difficult it must be to support devices. Good luck!