Thread: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
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2017-10-02 , 06:49
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Originally Posted by jakibaki View Post
As i understand this is the deal:

Third party vendors (Jolla) are not allowed to distribute images with the blobs inside and the workaround that Jolla was going to use before wasn't easy enough for the average user.

The new official solution for that is moving the blobs to a special partition so third party vendors can distribute their images without bundling the blobs themselves.
Thanks for providing some clear information without overreacting like some other people in this thread.

Distribution of binary blobs is a problem for all ports and this seems like a sensible solution.

If Sony do this for the other devices in their open mobile range then that's a great step forward for everyone porting any OS (including cutom ROMs like LineageOS etc.) to these devices.

Worth the delay IMO, and it probably won't stop Linux users from doing anything if you can still write to the partition from recovery.
 

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