Will Graphene OS, Lineage OS, or some other operating system install on a Lenovo Tablet?

Edit: Its a Lenovo P11 Tab Pro Gen 2

  • dudesss@lemmy.caOP
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    1 day ago

    Are there guides or documentation for how to do this for me or future devs that are interested?

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      24 hours ago

      what I know though is that the device manufacturers are obligated by license to give you the kernel source code for the device on request, because linux is gpl.

      but they are not obligated to provide you hardware drivers and device trees that are not included in the kernel. you may still ask in case they care, but it’s probably rare they provide that. sometimes it’s hard even to get their kernel source code.

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        17 hours ago

        in some cases they use (or at least base it from) a similar device’s tree. usually a similar soc. i see such devs using a lot of the same drivers and even combining efforts on similar devices.

        you’d probably have a better chance talking to people who maintains a similar platform.

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      24 hours ago

      I don’t know. Haven’t done this myself. I would look at the git history of devices currently supported. how they started out, what kind of changes they made, how did the maintainer obtain a file or figure out a config change, things like that. then maybe also contact the maintainer ofir that device, or the lineage mailing lists (or a more modern platform if they have one, but the more experienced folks are likely only reading the mailing lists)