c/privacy@lemmy.ml · soratoyuki@piefed.zip · 29 Aug 2026 17:38

GrapheneOS not supporting Pixel 11s?

GrapheneOS Mastodon GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social) 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.

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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.

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• [–] @pucker4676@lemmy.ml · 29 Aug 2026 · edited

  They’re not targeting flagship phones, it’s that the SoC the flagship phone comes with is the only SoC that meets the security requirements. As that SoC ends up in the next gen phones, cheaper options will be available.

  techtimes.com/…/grapheneos-expands-motorola-bette…

  The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 — the chip inside the 2026 Motorola Signature — introduced MTE support, but only in the Elite variant. The Foundation has characterized MTE in the non-Elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 as effectively broken for GrapheneOS’s purposes. This is why even Motorola’s current flagship lineup cannot qualify: the chip is close but the specific hardware feature GrapheneOS treats as non-negotiable is not reliably present across the Snapdragon lineup.

  Cheaper options will be available in the future. Let’s just be happy hardware will be available period.

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