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by viraptor 2622 days ago
The underlay hardware and drivers are currently mostly closed and unavailable. Especially the radios. That doesn't stop postmarketOS.
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_bxg1 2622 days ago
Surely it still relies on some of the same mechanisms that allow you to flash custom bootloaders and ROMs?
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viraptor 2622 days ago
A lot of bootloading / unlocking has been figured out by reverse engineering closed systems. It turns out Google is one of the few ones providing easy tools to do this on nexus / pixel phones, even though they didn't have to.

They still provide the binary drivers/firmware from upstream because there's no replacement for those.

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