Browsing Ars Technica I found this article about Project Treble: [image] Google’s “Project Treble” solves one of Android’s many update roadblocks Android's "Vendor Interface" will finally separate the OS from the hardware. Apparently Android O includes the outco…

So, Qualcomm is providing drivers for most of the hardware of our phone, but they are integrated in the ‘normal’ Linux kernel and not the Android fork, is that correct? Would that include the gpu driver and wouldn’t it be possible to backport it for the Fairphone team or something like this? …

[image] aljoscha: So, Qualcomm is providing drivers for most of the hardware of our phone, but they are integrated in the ‘normal’ Linux kernel and not the Android fork, is that correct? Correct! … although I presume they are keen to start using many of these drivers when Android versions on …

This is a misconception: most drivers tend to be open-source. Take a look in the Fairphone Open OS kernel repository and look at the Qualcomm components for yourself. NVIDIA Tegra has their work here, including the kernel side of the GPU driver, an old Allwinner kernel with many drivers etc. etc. …

[image] erotavlas: My question is why android linux kernel and mainline linux kernel are not the same thing? This is all a lot of “finger in the air” talk, but I reckon for GPUs there’s a historic reason. The Direct Rendering Management (DRM) framework, the current framework for open-source G…

Edit: Quite short (and boring) stream. But we could take the opportunity to discuss Tremble. :slight_smile: I look forward to more information on Treble, which should improve the update situation on future devices. [image] Here comes Treble: A modular base for Android The latest Andro…

This works: [image] Android – 8.0 Oreo Smarter, faster, more powerful and sweeter than ever. The newest release from Android. My Highscore was 202.

I have to admit, the solar eclipse reference is not the worst idea they’ve had… :wink: [Android Oreo - Open Wonder] Edit: [image] ben: My Highscore was 202. Where did you find a game??? I’m clicking on the version number, but nothing happens… :confused: My personal highlights …

[image] Stefan: Yay. Read: …and routes all your traffic via Google servers so that we know all the websites that you visit, Wifi Assistant is optional, as far as I know.

Not only websites, but servers, all internet communications. An VPN routes all internet traffic, not only web traffic (the Web being a set of protocol(s) [HTTP/S] over Internet protocols and architecture [TCP/IP, SSL, DNS]).

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Douwe August 21, 2017, 6:54pm 12

So Oreo it is!

Still some issues over at Google: https://www.android.com/oreo

Android Oreo Go for FP2?