Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (Android Developers Blog)
Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (Android Developers Blog)
Posted Aug 31, 2017 21:31 UTC (Thu) by thestinger (guest, #91827)In reply to: Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (Android Developers Blog) by kronat
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> it seems that Android uses 3.18 (released on Sun, 7 Dec 2014 ) in current versions or 4.4 (released on Sun, 10 Jan 2016) internally (for testing?)
The current active branches are 3.10, 3.18, 4.4 or 4.9. It's tied to the version the SoC vendor chose for the SoC generation used on a device. Current generation Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC line uses 4.4 from the low end through to the highest end chip (835) used in the Galaxy S8. Past generation used 3.18, and another generation back was 3.10. Generation ~= 1 year.