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AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers (www.androidauthority.com)
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TL;DR

  • Google has made it harder to build custom Android ROMs for Pixel phones by omitting their device trees and driver binaries from the latest AOSP release.

  • The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.

  • While Google insists AOSP isn’t going away, developers must now reverse-engineer changes, making the process for supporting Pixel devices more difficult.

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[-] Feyd@programming.dev 103 points 1 month ago

The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.

This actually probably make sense, but they could still be cool and have pixel drivers be open source in a different repo if that was the only reason.

[-] passepartout@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Would be great indeed, but "more neutral" in this case seems to mean vendor agnostic by abstracting the hardware away and have anything run on a closed source google container.

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