# postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels

DevFeed: [postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/postmarketos-in-2026-02-generic-kernels-41770.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/26/pmOS-update-2026-02/>)

Published: 2026-02-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [postmarketOS Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/postmarketos-blog.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainers.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [phones](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/phones.md>), [postmarketos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postmarketos.md>)

## AI overview

A February 2026 postmarketOS update covers project requirements for the main device category, an updated policy forbidding generative AI, changes among Trusted Contributors, and contributor work on Android phones, Chromebook support, mobile devices, and related development.

## Source excerpt

The biggest thing in February for postmarketOS was of course FOSDEM and our hackathon, about which we wrote a whole blog post already. Because of this, and the new approach outlined in the last monthly post, the blog post here is compareatively short. Organizational The PMCR 0009 about defining new requirements for the "main" device category is still in discussion but coming along nicely. The goal of this is to ensure that devices in main will be reliable and will be set up to stay there for a long time, once they are in that category. Thanks to everybody who has given feedback so far! Our AI policy has been updated to explicitly forbid generative AI, and to be shorter and easier to understand (!49). Thanks, Oliver! Trusted Contributors Bhushan is now a Trusted Contributor in postmarketOS! He has already been quite active in postmarketOS from 2018 to 2021 and has recently returned to KDE Plasma Mobile upstream development as well, which he has been doing for several years beforehand. Furthermore he is helping with improving certain mainline devices, such as the Fairphone 5 where he recently collaborated with Luca to get call audio from the speaker working for the first time! Minecrell stepped down as a TC. Among many other things, he was one of the initial maintainers that brought postmarketOS to Android phones, maintaining many of the MSM8916 devices, and the first one that enabled voice calls developing q6voiced. Minecrell is still available to answer questions and help guide people in the community in things that are part of his expertise. Anton stepped down as TC. He has pioneered Chromebook support in postmarketOS, implementing depthcharge support in pmbootstrap and many other things that were needed to make this possible. Furthermore he has been maintaining the port for the AYA Odin game console, and mainlining it, and worked on many other great things in postmarketOS. A warm welcome to Bhushan and a huge thanks to Minecrell and Anton for how they have pushed