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Re:Android and iOS data collection by blendergeek on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:03AM (#28743278)
> How's the driver situation? Lots of proprietary blobs?

Interestingly enough, no, the drivers are all open source and mainlined. There is even a work-in-progress driver for hardware video decoding.

There are a couple proprietary firmware blobs that have to be loaded at boot time but that is just like on a laptop.

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Re:Android and iOS data collection by matheusmoreira on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:18AM (#28743629)
> Interestingly enough, no, the drivers are all open source and mainlined. There is even a work-in-progress driver for hardware video decoding.

That's amazing. So unlike Android phones I can actually use a stock kernel. I think I'm gonna buy one.

> There are a couple proprietary firmware blobs that have to be loaded at boot time but that is just like on a laptop.

So the kernel itself is not tainted? I'm fine with that.

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