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Android, forking, and controlAndroid, forking, and controlPosted Jun 7, 2011 22:15 UTC (Tue) by linusw (subscriber, #40300)In reply to: Android, forking, and control by swetland Parent article: Android, forking, and control
Thanks Brian, love your posts here. Now this quote about "very strong industry support" look a bit odd since when the Nexus came out it seem to me like the MSM kernel was written to a large extent by the Android startup and Google rather than the chipset vendor, actually. I understand that it is different now, but was the support really that great in the beginning?
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Android, forking, and control Posted Jun 8, 2011 0:06 UTC (Wed) by swetland (subscriber, #63414) [Link]
Qualcomm was very supportive of us and provided documentation, technical support, etc, while we did the coreLinux port for MSM7X0X and MSM8X50. Since then they've become much more involved and are not working directly with the community, submitting patches on lkml, etc. Which is great!
Obviously some vendors already had code in mainline or patchsets available and others were not as far along, but overall Linux had a lot of momentum and there was plenty of interest in enabling it, even back in 2005. Since then it's only picked up even more steam, between Android, WebOS, MeeGo, etc.
Android, forking, and control Posted Jun 8, 2011 0:10 UTC (Wed) by swetland (subscriber, #63414) [Link]
Blargh... s/coreLinux/core Linux/ s/are not working/are now working/ ... pardon the typos...
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