chasteinsect@programming.dev to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 11 days agoGrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look backwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down12cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1113arrow-down1external-linkGrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look backwww.androidauthority.comchasteinsect@programming.dev to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square27linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareTurret3857@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·11 days agoIm confused. Graphene has been saying this for at least a couple years. Is there a change now where they’re actually finalizing something?
minus-squarewizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 days agoIf I read previous articles right, Google has stopped shipping Pixel specific hardware drivers down to the android open source project, so any hardware support graphene figures out going forward has to be reverse engineered anyway. So that’s some additional motivation at least.
minus-squareKissaki@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoThey said for at least a couple of years that they want to expand to other phone models or that they’re partnering with a major OEM? The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.
minus-squareTurret3857@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoThat they are partnering with an OEM. I remember the chatterings around it happening at least a year ago if not longer.
Im confused. Graphene has been saying this for at least a couple years. Is there a change now where they’re actually finalizing something?
If I read previous articles right, Google has stopped shipping Pixel specific hardware drivers down to the android open source project, so any hardware support graphene figures out going forward has to be reverse engineered anyway.
So that’s some additional motivation at least.
They said for at least a couple of years that they want to expand to other phone models or that they’re partnering with a major OEM?
That they are partnering with an OEM. I remember the chatterings around it happening at least a year ago if not longer.