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Re:PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartph... by ndesaulniers on Friday May 26, 2017 @08:49PM (#14428293)
Isn't that solved by device tree w/ overlays? (I don't know much about ARMv7).
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Re:PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartph... by djsumdog on Saturday May 27, 2017 @07:15AM (#14429685)
Very few mobile phone arm devices support device trees. Only Windows Mobile phones provided UEFI (with locked bootloaders). Most ARM devices just attach random shit to random pins and have totally non-upstreamable kernels.
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