Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline

Posted Nov 30, 2018 21:08 UTC (Fri) by meyert (subscriber, #32097)
Parent article: Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline

Btw. what is the android device with the most up to date kernel? Does anybody have a list of android phone models and their kernel version. I would like to buy the android phone with the most up to date kernel version.

Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline

Posted Dec 1, 2018 1:00 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

postmarketOS has a list of devices that mentions if mainline Linux supports them, I suppose those ones would be the ones that could get the most up to date kernel.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline

Posted Dec 1, 2018 10:43 UTC (Sat) by excors (subscriber, #95769) [Link]

"most up to date" probably isn't the best criteria. If you care about security it's better to have one running 4.9 from a vendor that's going to keep pulling from upstream's stable branch until 2023, than one that's running 4.20 today but will never be updated.