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the chip manufacturer usually craps out a hacked up android build





ok, but, naively... Android is Linux with a userland- so the drivers must exist in some form.

Android has some ability to have binary drivers that aren't easily reusable for normal linux branches

Yup. There’s libhybris/Halium which wraps Android drivers for glibc-based Linux distros, but I think it’s more of a hack / stopgap solution.



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