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Would this help projects like LineageOS (formerly Cyanogenmod) maintain ongoing support for older devices?

If all the vendor crap and secret drivers are abstracted out sufficiently, yes.

The bottom diagram suggests that the 'Android OS framework' could be made device independent, with Lineage OS only responsible for maintaining the 'Original vendor implementation'.

A 'ROM' could then be split into 2 - the core system and the userspace running on top, with potentially the latter maintained by Google's AOSP across all devices.

Hopefully. A lot will depend on the license around the test suite. This held back alt-java for a long time.

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