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Re:Ten years after first shipping Openmoko Neo1973 by notspanishflu on Sunday July 09, 2017 @09:31PM (#14732776)
There's a "collaborative project to unify the Hardware Abstraction Layer for projects which run GNU/Linux on mobile devices with pre-installed Android" called Halium.

https://halium.org/

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Re:Ten years after first shipping Openmoko Neo1973 by subway on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:07AM (#14733311)
Complete with the device mfg's unpatched 3.10 kernel.

Thanks, but no thanks.

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Re:Ten years after first shipping Openmoko Neo1973 by audi100quattro on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:39AM (#14733636)
I wouldn't write it off so easily, it makes sense as an open source alternative to google's project treble albeit with parts of android still running underneath. A stable linux HAL on a few widely used devices would make all the upstream dev easier. Even if you are stuck on an older kernel because of a blob driver, it's progress and similar to when you can't upgrade the kernel on your laptop now because nvidia haven't updated their drivers.
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