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		fabrice_d 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Ope... > I can get the source of the kernel, including all drivers, running on my android phone with a few clicks and build a custom ROM. No, most drivers are closed source and you can just extract binary blobs for them. They run as daemons that communicate through the binder ipc - Android basically turned the Linux kernel into a microkernel.

pjmlp 35 days ago [–]

Indeed, since Android 8 all drivers are in userspace and use Android IPC to talk to the Linux kernel.

Traditional Linux drivers are considered legacy in Android.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/hal

oneshtein 35 days ago | [–]

Yep, my Pixel 5 with stock OS and Pixel 6 with Graphene are hacked via WiFi blobs, which are not updated and cannot be patched.

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