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| author | Daniel Micay <daniel.micay@grapheneos.org> | 2024-06-18 08:22:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Micay <daniel.micay@grapheneos.org> | 2024-06-18 08:30:11 -0400 |
| commit | e372cb052271b3f211194be4b9b76288ba4c66c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 133958b14970d1c6cfb9b470f52519cbc930f18c /static/faq.html | |
| parent | c7cb7226a895730236a19c7516d9e9b80c2db75c (diff) | |
merge mostly redundant FAQ section into future devices
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/static/faq.html b/static/faq.html index 759e3bcc..15c36a2c 100644 --- a/static/faq.html +++ b/static/faq.html @@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ <li><a href="#supported-devices">Which devices are supported?</a></li> <li><a href="#recommended-devices">Which devices are recommended?</a></li> <li><a href="#future-devices">Which devices will be supported in the future?</a></li> - <li><a href="#when-devices">When will more devices be supported?</a></li> <li><a href="#legacy-devices">Why are older devices no longer supported?</a></li> <li><a href="#which-legacy-devices">Which devices did GrapheneOS support in the past?</a></li> <li><a href="#device-lifetime">How long will GrapheneOS support my device for?</a></li> @@ -346,34 +345,16 @@ and dedicated towards it. Releases for each supported device need to be robust and stable, with all standard functionality working properly and testing for each of the releases.</p> - </article> - - <article id="when-devices"> - <h3><a href="#when-devices">When will more devices be supported?</a></h3> - - <p>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.</p> - - <p>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.</p> - <p>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.</p> + <p>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.</p> </article> <article id="legacy-devices"> |