Sentences with phrase «vendor partition»

Project Treble compatibility requires that a device ship with a separate vendor partition in order to store the vendor HALs.

Although this would remove space from the existing system partition, phhusson suggests that the new vendor partition use SquashFS to optimize space.

He used the «cust» partition on the device for his make - shift vendor partition.

The screenshot above shows a dump of the / vendor partition from the Honor V10, a device which ships with Android 8.0 Oreo and is required to meet Treble's requirements.

Instead, they are moved to a separate vendor partition without having to be recompiled, and new standardized vendor interfaces (defined with HAL Interface Definition Language) allow for the OS framework to communicate with the HALs.

Thinking that carriers wouldn't use this new vendor partition if it meant their bloatware apps could be uninstalled, Google came up with a compromise: To install apps here, the carrier wouldn't have to do any tinkering with the phone beforehand, and instead, Android would automatically download the apps for them while the user completed initial setup.

HALs will be built by vendors or SoC makers and put in a / vendor partition on the device, enabling the framework, in its own partition, to be replaced with an over-the-air update (OTA) without recompiling the HALs.

Project Treble support will not be arriving on the device due to a lack of a dedicated vendor partition, however.

As for why device makers like OnePlus or Nokia never implemented a separate vendor partition, it's because it just wasn't a requirement for them to do so until Android Oreo.

At the basic level, Treble separates the vendor implementation from the Android OS framework using a new vendor partition.

On the other hand, Huawei, Essential, and Google phones have already been using a vendor partition to store vendor code on their devices.

Since these devices already ship without a separate vendor partition, it means that they would have to re-partition existing devices to include space for the vendor partition.

Since existing OnePlus and Nokia phones lack a vendor partition, it means there is no reason for them to work to meet Treble's requirements when upgrading their devices to Android Oreo.

phhusson believes it may be possible for the system partition to itself be gpt - partitioned so it can contain both the system and vendor partitions.

Some would argue why the recently released OnePlus 5T didn't launch with Oreo or have a separate vendor partition, and while I can't say for sure why, my best guess is they built the software as close to the OnePlus 5 as possible so they could release unified builds like they do for the OnePlus 3 / 3T.

Now, this is merely a proof - of - concept workaround, but it's one possibility that phhusson believes may work in bringing Treble support to devices that lack a vendor partition.

That doesn't mean it is impossible for them to add a vendor partition, but it can be risky.

The problem has to do with partitions, or rather, the lack of one — the vendor partition.

With Android Marshmallow, Google had inserted a new partitioning structure that included a vendor partition.

This is thanks to various binaries in the vendor partition that are there to allow Android to use the dual cameras.

Basically, all of the vendor Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs, the binaries that Android interfaces with to work with hardware components) are moved to a separate vendor partition and interface with the Android Framework (the OS) in a more standardized way via the HAL Interface Definition Language (HIDL).

It involves separating vendor Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs) from the Android Framework into a new vendor partition, and having the HALs communicate with the Android Framework through a new Vendor Interface via what's called the HAL Interface Definition Language (HIDL).

This is a challenge for developers as it means they have to first find space to use as a make - shift vendor partition (on devices that do not already have one) and then move all of the HALs out of the system partition into this new vendor partition, and then create the vendor interface themselves in HIDL.

While it's true the best parts of Project Treble will allow the same system image to be booted on any device, devices which don't have this partition but still «Treble - ize» their BLOBs, so to say, can still be used on any Project Treble supported version of Android with or without the / vendor partition, so long as the necessary adjustments are made.

Treble support allows users to change the system image and run different system images with the same kernel and vendor partition.

Thanks to Treble, Mi 5 users can easily change the system image and run different system images with the same kernel and vendor partition.

But Asus didn't let that stop it from releasing an Android Oreo - based update for the Asus Zenfone 4 that brings Project Treble support without a separate vendor partition.

The system partition contains the generic system image (GSI), while the vendor partition has device specific files required for booting and running the phone.

Because Asus chose not to use a / vendor partition, the device BLOBS are stored in the / system partition instead, which means it's impossible to create a single system image on the Zenfone 4 that'll boot on other Asus devices.

The system partition contains the Generic System Image, while the vendor partition contains device - specific files that are required for booting and running the phone.

With Treble, the HALs are moved to their own area (a vendor partition) and now communicate with the Android framework in a more standardized way.

Nokia and OnePlus both claim that their devices don't have the necessary partitions — a fair excuse, given that Project Treble requires a / vendor partition to hold all of the device Binary Large Objects (BLOBs).

However, it has not taken the step of creating a vendor partition for the binary libraries that need to be disclosed, instead dumping them into the system file.

XDA - Developers reports that the vendor partition would allow whole images to be transferred and booted on any Treble device, regardless of OEM, so if users were interested in exporting the ZenFone 4's ROM or importing another ROM to the device, they're pretty much sure out of luck.

The comment speaks about several code artifacts that aren't used by the general Android framework and should therefore be moved to vendor partition.