Hi Pankaj, There's not much difference. The Android kernel code has been removed from the main kernel tree as of the 2.6.33 kernel release
The Android code was in the main kernel tree before 2.6.33 kernel release but no one cared about the code, so it was removed. Then google had taken over this code. Google has taken the Linux kernel, and nothing else from a traditional Linux system, and created a portable and robust phone platform. What this means now is: Drivers written for Android hardware platforms, can not get merged into the main kernel tree because they have dependencies on code that only lives in Google's kernel tree, causing it to fail to build in the kernel tree. Because of this, Google has now prevented a large chunk of hardware drivers and platform code from ever getting merged into the main kernel tree. Hope that gives you some insight of what has happened. Regards, On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Subramani Venkatesh <subbu31m...@gmail.com > wrote: > Android uses same open source Linux kernel, there is no much > difference, other than few kernel modules like Binders addition... > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Pankaj <gadhiya_pankaj...@yahoo.co.in> > wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I want to know diffrence beween android kernel and linux kernel. > > Can any one give me some information regarding that? > > > > Thank you > > Pankaj Gadhiya > > > > -- > > unsubscribe: > > android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-porting%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > > > -- > unsubscribe: > android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-porting%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
