I don’t think it was, as far as I understand that topic, the Fairphone 3 was able to use a generic loader 
But then again I haven’t been around when those posts were written, I’m just grasping for straws here in search for answers about low level Qualcomm stuff…
This
I get why they can’t do it, but boy would it be easier if Fairphone just released the necessary files.
Why does the right to repair have to stop at some random proprietary wall? 