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Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline by throwaway9d0291 on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:01AM (#18500936)
Thanks to Treble, this shouldn't be a problem for phones launched with Pie. It should now be possible to build a single system partition then flash it to any Treble device.

There are builds like this working on many devices right now: https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble/trebleenable...

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Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline by izacus on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:10AM (#18500982)
Caveat applies though - the hardware layer won't update in this case (which includes the kernel version), so you'll have original (old, maybe buggy or insecure) drivers even though the platform is updated.

It's a huge improvement (a lot of bugs are in platform layer, including the media/stagefright stuff), but not yet perfect.

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