LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5 million Android devices

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LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5 million Android devices - Lemmy.World

I wouldn’t dream to use any stock android at this point. Been on LOS forever and each new phone I buy either check if Los is available or, in one case (my current phone) I ported Los for it myself.
How do you port it? Don’t you need access to the device tree files iirc?
You need to copy or grab or create the device tree files. Usually by cloning a similar device. Vendor files are extracted from stock rom. Kernels, you need an official release from vendor to start width.