Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

Posted Oct 29, 2015 10:48 UTC (Thu) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375)
Parent article: Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

Was there any comment made about newer handsets using chips runnnig ARMv8, and them possibly being configured at startup via ACPI? Would it have divided the room into a fight over DT?

K3n

Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

Posted Oct 30, 2015 12:42 UTC (Fri) by jpfrancois (subscriber, #65948) [Link]

I don't think ACPI or DT will change something here.
When boardfile where in use, they were not that big. I think the out of tree code is mainly drivers and random hacks to the scheduler / PM code.

Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

Posted Oct 30, 2015 16:54 UTC (Fri) by robher (subscriber, #92311) [Link]

ACPI on ARM is only for servers. No one else is looking to move from DT that I am aware of. Many phones have 3.4 kernels and are not even using DT.