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We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware. It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/[email protected]/p/1776518/grapheneos-not-supporting-pixel-11s

If GrapheneOS stops supporting future Pixels, and Motorola is only targeting the flagship market for their compatible phones, we’re looking at truly dark days ahead.

  • exdor@programming.dev
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    18 hours ago

    First only their flagship models. Economy of scale, it is likely that other models might adopt the same chips.

    Though as we see from Pixels you can still buy top tier chips without MTE, or with shorter firmware updates. The EU mandates 5 years afaik but that is less than the 7 or so that Pixels have.

    I am happy I got a Pixel 10, even though it still has bugs due to missing drivers and configurations I suppose.

    It is likely that Motorola will still not produce secure enough lower end phones in the future.