I don’t understand: If I keep the proprietary driverss of the vendor in place and just upgrade to the latest GKI by Google, shouldn’t that be OK in theory? Unless the KMI itself changed and everything breaks.

Sorry but I’m having trouble following the discussion. Copying over from another comment:

If I keep the proprietary drivers of the vendor in place and just upgrade to the latest GKI by Google, shouldn’t that be OK in theory? Unless the KMI itself changed and everything breaks.

I feel like at least part of this is copy-pasta, but whatever. You make valid points, but I do not understand how it is relevant to the question. If proprietary drivers can be plugged in as modules (which is what GKI wants), shouldn’t I just be able to update to the latest FOSS GKI myself (which is exactly what Google wants to do with Play updates to the kernel) and keep the drivers from the vendor?

By Kernel I mean GKI

Apologies for my tone earlier. I simply did not expect an in-depth and genuinely thought someone did a copy-pasta from another relevant thread/got an LLM answer in. It was my mistake to assume as such and I apologise.

Ah, indeed for some reason this part about the Linux kernel completely escaped my mind about it being a monolithic kernel. Yeah I can see the problem now. Unfortunate that OTA updates are the only way for updates to reach devices not supported by custom ROMs.

I’m sorry again.

Kernel Module Interface, Google’s new project with making the GKI mandatory on devices. I think it’s a good step.

Yeah if the ABI changes spec frequently I can see the problem. Thanks

Can I share seeds over I2P?

I start playing music on YT music, and if there’s anything I like I will pirate it

Wait what?

They’re trying to be Fairphone-lite?

Are recommendations against the rules?