[magmastonealex]

It's not super clear which blobs are needed for particular devices - and it's different for all of them. I'm not aware of a single place to find what's needed - though the LineageOS device repositories can help a lot.

The plan, especially when it comes to modems and graphics acceleration, is to package these firmware blobs separately. Then, a user can choose at install time if they're alright with non-free blobs running on their phone. This has already been done for many phones for WiFi/Bluetooth chipsets.

This method also has the advantage of letting us move quicker - we don't need to wait years to reverse engineer modem firmware, or be required to spend the time mainlining every device we want to add in order to get the "essential" features for a phone.

(I'm a developer on the project)