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forking vendorsforking vendorsPosted Jun 7, 2011 13:13 UTC (Tue) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976)In reply to: forking vendors by Seegras Parent article: Android, forking, and control
I'm afraid Android isn't going to in have generic "distribution" kernels anytime soon. It's so much easier to just do one-shot kernel for every device :-(
https://twitter.com/#!/jbqueru/status/67223151683174400 https://twitter.com/#!/jbqueru/status/67223447264169985
This relates to this weeks "Forking ARM" article by Thomas Gleixner, but is actually yet another different problem plaguing the ARM platform. No hardware discoverability, and no standard BIOS+ACPI thingy(thank god) to bring uniformity. The kernel developers have been working on a solution and came up with device trees, although those might one day be part of the problem (just like BIOSes, ACPI and EFI).
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forking vendors Posted Jun 7, 2011 16:52 UTC (Tue) by swetland (subscriber, #63414) [Link]
Well, all credit due to JBQ who works his butt off, but from the system/kernel team's perspective, we'd *love* to get closer to mainline and have things more standardized. It's certainly not easy.
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