Sunny, Your narrative clearly says that you've never actually TRIED to get anything into the Linux Kernel mainline..it takes a very concentrated and prolonged effort to get the simplest thing reviewed and accepted..so the changes that Google made would take a considerable amount of time..
Google isn't necessarily the one to blame here and aren't the only people out that the maintain a Kernel tree that parallels in the mainline Kernel but is separate.. -- Ashwin On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Sunny Aujla <sunnyfedor...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting >> > >> >> -- >> unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > -- > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
