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Re:Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again? by gcb0 on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @01:39AM (#18653601)
unless "your device" is the emulator, there is no way to get hold of drivers or firmware for anything other than lifting them of an blessed rom ... and only if you can get the parity you need with the kernel you are using.

there's a very good reason the "supported device list" of all forks is always very, very small (even with the outlandish claims on most of them such as "supported. touch screen and modem still not working" )

just becuase the build steps for your fork project automates some of that driver/kernel lifting, doesn't make it any better.

Re:Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again? by icebraining on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:57AM (#18663474)
And all of that is also gatekeeping by the OEMs.