[karteum]

"this will force the average user to upgrade their phones"

A lot of phones don't receive any upgrades after 1 or 2 years...

I wish that Google would have forced vendors to implement a proper hardware abstraction (uefi or similar) so that a single kernel could run on any smartphone, just like it's the case for PCs...

[charcircuit]

Google has required vendors to do that since Android 12. For a given version that same exact kernel is used on all phones with that version.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel/gen...

[ChocolateGod]

Unfortunately it still requires OEMs to ship that kernel.