Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

Re:Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable... by lordofgibbons on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:56PM (#47242418)

Given that Google has said they'll be delaying source code release for Android to every X months intervals (iirc), how is GrapheneOS planning to handle security updates? Will they just be Google's binary blobs?

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Re:Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable... by zeech on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @10:16PM (#47242584)

Graphene already uses binary blobs (though one can disable them if they want). Info at [0].

[0] https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p...

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Re:Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable... by khimaros on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @10:47PM (#47242806)

this isn't quite right. the blobs are produced by GrapheneOS and are reproducible once the source code embargo lifts.

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Re:Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable... by zeech on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @11:19PM (#47243007)

Whoops, nice catch - comment edited.

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Re:Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable... by izacus on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:59AM (#47244871)

Motorola is a partner that has access to Android source sooner.

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Re:Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable... by Aachen on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @07:30AM (#47246555)

Isn't that about feature releases? My understanding was that security patches are separate from this

edit: looked up the announcement https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-... but it doesn't even mention the word security. I don't know enough about the manufacturer side of things to say whether this means there's also no security updates while they work on new features

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