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Alternative OS for Lenovo Tablet (self.degoogle)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by dudesss to c/[email protected]

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

Edit: Its a Lenovo P11 Tab Pro Gen 2

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.