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by 627467
2193 days ago
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Yes, I became aware of that effort. And I applaud and look forward to them. The problem I see in long term is: if there's no inherent property of iPhones that make them unhackable by aftermarket efforts I don't understand why there aren't more efforts or more success. Any given model of iPhone has many more units out in the market than almost any given model of android device that is officially supported by aftermarket efforts (ie. LineageOS, postmarketOS, etc). |
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I have a netbook with GMA 500, it has closed source driver for XOrg 1.9 (ten years old) and corresponding kernel [1]. I bought it because Intel graphic cards had open source drivers, not this one. Later I thought as you - someone would hack it, yes, kind of - there is a version without hardware acceleration. Eventually I was living with outdated XOrg server and patching driver to support updated kernel [2]. That I think is about as good as LineageOS - much better start than iPhone.
Hacking out of necessity is a bad idea. If not PinePhone I would definitely check open source drivers support in Replicant [3]. iPhone is too far away (and its users like iOS).
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Controller_Hub#GMA_500_...
2: http://sergeykish.com/linux-poulsbo-emgd
3: https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/DeviceS...