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For Android, they're proposing GKI module shims that a vendor can code against. So a vendor plugs a binary blob into, say a 5.4 GKI module, which is hopefully forward compatible with the interface to a 6.25 GKI module released sometime in 2026.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plan...

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They are, but it is only post Android 10, so it will take years before it matters at all.

As an example, Vulkan was added in Android 7 as optional API, the adoption was so low, with so many buggy drivers that as of Android 10 it became a compulsory API.

On Android everything that Google leaves the OEMs free reign hardly gets done.

(GKI = generic kernel image)

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