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Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's Android not mainline. You can't easily upstream the changes and you are stuck with a single kernel version.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They regularly uplevel the kernel, and not all Android Linux code is inherently incompatible with mainline.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Tell that to my phone. Its possible some are worse than others but for Android devices the track level isn't good. Just check out the mainline status of PostmarketOS devices.