On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Glenn Kasten <gkas...@android.com> wrote: > First see http://source.android.com/source/building-kernels.html > especially section "Downloading sources". >
Right, that's where I've been getting kernels from to look at :-) > Although android.googlesource.com/kernel/ hosts a git server > with kernel source repositories for a variety of devices, > each of those repositories has generally evolved independently. > Usually an SoC vendor initially took some generic kernel commit, > added their own device drivers and configuration, and then > it was integrated with Android to form a particular device release. > This then continued with successive generations. > If you look at the repositories, it's usually a 1-1 match between SoC vendor > and repository name. > It would be a large amount of work (technically and management-wise) to > attempt to have > a single repository that was always up-to-date for all SoC vendors and > devices, > and the benefit is not enough to justify the cost. Okay. To give some idea of why I ask, I'm wondering how to better manage product lines for different devices with a common source branch. (The idea is that, if you want to verify / test / etc..., then doing the work for each kernel will be more work.) I understand the management issue, that's very real, but can you give any ideas as to why maintaining a single codebase would be difficult? Because the configurations are different, and include specific mods? My idea was that most vendors took kernels, added a few modules, changed the configuration, and that was that. I'll try to dig in the sources to answer this myself. -- -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Linux Kernel Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
