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Re:Essential Phone, available now by maherbeg on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:10PM (#15041910)
I'm 90% sure this is because Qualcomm won't give out the source to various drivers. Instead you get a binary blob to deal with which makes the interface with other parts of the system untenable over time.
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Re:Essential Phone, available now by remir on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:22PM (#15041977)
Google fixed that in Android O with Project Treble, but the Essential Phone won't ship with O unfortunately.
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Re:Essential Phone, available now by zifnab06 on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:26PM (#15042003)
You are (mostly) correct. Either qcom doesn't give you blob updates (sometimes) or they don't update vendor/qcom/proprietary for new releases (most of the time). Partially on qcom, partially on OEMs.
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