<moderator> android-porting is a technical forum for porting the generic AOSP distribution to non-AOSP-supported targets. This thread is starting to veer into an area where further discussion would be off-topic. Please move follow-up discussion to another forum, perhaps android-kernel. Thanks! </moderator>
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:25:06 AM UTC-8, Subodh Nijsure wrote: > > > 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.
