Pixel 2 and 2 XL have been marked as legacy devices to reflect that this is the final year of guaranteed support. These devices are missing some newer hardware (Titan M) and kernel (CFI, ShadowCallStack, etc.) security features but they've aged much better than past generations.
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Pixel 2 and 2 XL are still supported. The only change is marking them as legacy. Please read the device support section in the FAQ: grapheneos.org/faq#device-sup. You have some misunderstandings that are addressed there. I would have recommended reading it before purchasing a device.
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> Only one single device is pretty ridiculous.
There are 6 supported device models. That means every release needs to be built and tested across 6 devices. The XL and non-XL devices are not the same. They have different components like the screen resulting in different drivers.
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The Pixel 2 and 2 XL are still supported, just marked as legacy. If we intended to drop them we wouldn't be asking for help maintaining them. We lack the resources to add support for new devices like the Pixel 4 and 4 XL (current generation Pixels) or non-Pixel devices right now.
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Supporting 6 different device models in addition to doing most of the development, research, testing and debugging along with maintaining all the infrastructure, handling code review, writing most of the documentation, managing the community, etc. is far too much for one person.
Project has a single full-time developer doing nearly everything (myself) and a single regular community contributor (renlord) doing amazing work in their limited free time. It's a very large project with a lot of breadth and depth requiring a dozen full time developers, not one.
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So if the community isn't going to step up beyond a bunch of individuals and companies trying to profit from our work without giving anything of substance back, this model isn't going to work. If the community wants Pixel 2 support, or Pixel 4 support, people need to get to work.
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