Google is in powerful position to nudge the SOC vendors to push their code changes to linux-arm, rather than allowing push to android.googlesource that gives SOC vendors way to circumvent going the linux-arm way?
-Subodh On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 7:29:51 AM UTC-8, Glenn Kasten wrote: > > Generally speaking, Android user mode is not tied to a particular version > of Linux kernel. > > Each device project picks a kernel that is well-suited to the device and > has been validated. > Usually these kernels come from an SoC vendor that has ported generic > upstream kernel to their SoC. > > For example, if you go to https://android.googlesource.com/ and scroll > down to > kernel/ section, you'll see a number of separate kernel git projects for > several SoCs. > You'll see that the upstream kernel versions from which these are derived > vary: 3.4, 3.1, 3.0, etc. > > So far it has not been feasible to merge all these kernel git projects > from various SoCs into > a single git project, for various technical and administrative reasons. > > Regarding your question about 3.10, the presence of a particular branch > does not indicate any commitment to support that version on any specific > device. > > On Monday, January 13, 2014 5:41:23 PM UTC-8, cchh wrote: >> >> I saw the Google have 3.10 kernel branch in >> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/. But I dont notice there >> are any gits been updated to make them work with 3.10 kernel. At least, the >> bionic.git need to be updated to include those 3.10 kernel header. Does >> anyone porting the android into 3.10 kernel or even higher version? Or what >> is the plan for Google on 3.10 kernel? >> >> BRs >> Guoyin Chen >> > -- -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-porting" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
