Just like on Android, there is Linux kernel, and then there are the stable ABI Google specific driver frameworks with OS IPC that will never be part of upstream.
> one of the dirty secrets about how Chromebooks manage to get so cheap is they use the cheapest ARM processors with ridiculous amounts of binary blobs patched in that will never go upstream, so kernel updates are almost nonexistent
doesn't seem to be true. Google doing its own thing in userspace is separately annoying to me but actually an advantage in terms of keeping the machine's kernel up to date.
> one of the dirty secrets about how Chromebooks manage to get so cheap is they use the cheapest ARM processors with ridiculous amounts of binary blobs patched in that will never go upstream, so kernel updates are almost nonexistent
doesn't seem to be true. Google doing its own thing in userspace is separately annoying to me but actually an advantage in terms of keeping the machine's kernel up to date.