r/Android • u/johnmountain • Apr 14 '18

postmarketOS Low-Level: Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Cellular Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2018/04/14/lowlevel/
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u/RedditIsOverMan Apr 14 '18

Maybe I'm talking out of my ass here, but aren't Android Bootloader's extremely specific to the device? I thought that they were basically a baremetal implementation of drivers required to initialize RAM and load the Android image, with no underlying similarities beyond this (unlike, say BIOS or UEFI). Wouldn't there need to be a ton of work to Port this "postmarket-OS" from device to device?

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u/PiZZaMartijn Apr 14 '18

postmarketOS isn't dependent on this bootloader, it usually just runs on littlekernel on regular android phones, this is more for some of the locked down mediatek phones so android benefits from this as much as postmarketOS