When will more devices be supported?
- -Broader device support can only happen after the community (companies, - organizations and individuals) steps up to make substantial, ongoing contributions to - making the existing device support sustainable. Once the existing device support is - more sustainable, early research and development work for other devices can begin. - Once a device is deemed to be a worthwhile target, the project needs maintainers to - develop and maintain support for it including addressing device-specific issues that - are uncovered, which will include issues uncovered in the device support code by - GrapheneOS hardening features.
- -It's not really a matter of time but rather a need for community support for the - project increasing. As an open source project, the way to get something to happen in - GrapheneOS is to contribute to it, and this is particularly true for device support - since it's very self-contained and can be delegated to separate teams for each - device. If you want to see more devices supported sooner, you should get to work on - identifying good devices with full support for alternative operating systems with - verified boot, etc. and then start working on integrating and testing support.
- -It should also be clear that the expectation is for people to buy a device to run - GrapheneOS, rather than GrapheneOS supporting their existing devices. This will only - become more true if GrapheneOS is successful enough to accomplish the goal of having - devices produced based on an SoC reference design with minor improvements for privacy - and security. Broad device support is the opposite of what the project wants to - achieve in the long term.
+The expectation is for people to buy a secure device meeting our requirements + to run GrapheneOS. Broad device support would imply mainly supporting very badly + secured devices unable to support our features. It would also take a substantial + amount of resources away from our work on privacy and security, especially since + a lot of it is closely tied to the hardware such as the USB-C port control and + fixing or working around memory corruption bugs uncovered by our features. We + plan to partner with OEMs to have devices produced meeting all our requirements, + providing additional privacy/security features beyond them and ideally shipping + with GrapheneOS rather than massively lowering our standards.