A Chromium engineer at Google posted the initial Device Tree (DT) files for being able to boot their latest-generation Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL devices with the mainline Linux kernel.

Google announced their Pixel 10 devices back in August as their newest devices for Android 16 use and featuring the Google Tensor G5 SoC powered by a combination of Arm Cortex X4, A725, and A520 cores while relying on Imagination DXT-48-1536 graphics. Outside the confines of Google’s Android, out today is the initial Device Trees for being able to boo the Google Pixel 10 / Pixel 10 Pro / Pixel 10 Pro XL devices with these patches proposed for the mainline Linux kernel.

    • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      They’ve been working towards Project Mainline for a while. It benefits them as well from being in tree.

    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      No surprise given they support the KDE an Ubuntu projects, which coincidentally are making waves in the mobile OS market.

    • kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Its a massive companies, there’s probably like 7 different orgs making android / pixel decisions that rarely interact and have little idea what the others are doing

    • magikmw@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’m pretty sure there’s not one John Google making all the decisions in a coherent manner.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      I guess they want developers to not abandon the Pixel platform (Because let’s face it, the ability to install GrapheneOS and use the platform for Android development is basically the only “pull” the ecosystem has)?

      Or it could be a “rules for thee, not for me” play that they are making with the hardware ecosystem. IDK.

      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Google’s pull for most is the camera. Graphene is a vanishingly small % of pixel users (estimated 200k total graphene users vs estimated 15M+ pixels in the US alone).

        • noobdoomguy8658@feddit.orgEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I’m going to give you no source for this, but power users are not the people that big tech usually extorts for money and data that easily, not compared to the most of the clientele, and that’s not something that makes the line go up – sometimes the power users manage to educate the non-power users on how to be more of a nuisance to the company, too, which also does not contribute to the line very well, and we all know that MBA considers this treason, theft and punishable by death.