Android 11 released

Posted Sep 9, 2020 16:17 UTC (Wed) by juliank (guest, #45896)
In reply to: Android 11 released by karim
Parent article: Android 11 released

This is going to be interesting for the Android 12 devices, which must ship with Google's GKI binaries. I mean, in theory, Google could then just push out kernel updates themselves?

Android 11 released

Posted Sep 24, 2020 10:58 UTC (Thu) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

This seems to be the goal:

According to Dave Burke, Android's head of engineering, Google is just getting started with Mainline modules: "With Mainline we've started with the less exciting modules at the beginning to prove that all of that infrastructure before you go for the big ones like this." "Like this" was a reference to an in-development Linux kernel module we were asking about. Imagine updating Android's Linux kernel through the Play Store! Someday it might happen, so expect a great deal of mainline talk in the future.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/android-11-the-ar...