Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android and the Linux kernel community

Posted Feb 4, 2010 11:48 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android and the Linux kernel community by cdibona
Parent article: Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android and the Linux kernel community

Sure, there are quite a few ARM/SoC forks, and there are a lot of very unhappy users facing a lot of problems that will probably never be solved, or will be solved with extensive backporting.

There are also (and check linux-arm if you don't believe me) a lot of SoCs that work flawlessly, out of the box, with stock kernels. The OMAP series is used quite extensively, and the linux-omap tree is very active and frequently merged back into the mainline; I believe that linux-2.6 works out of the box on the N900, with no particular disadvantage, and certainly no regressions in power management.

Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android and the Linux kernel community

Posted Feb 7, 2010 9:17 UTC (Sun) by swetland (guest, #63414) [Link]

It took a few years for the omap2/omap3 stuff to actually get to mainline and stabilize. I've been watching that process since we started on Android in 2005. I fully believe we'll get there with other SoC support and perhaps even with some of the generic Android drivers, but it's not going to happen overnight.