On Oct 28, 2011, at 17:39, Zygmunt Bazyli Krynicki wrote: > Wysłane z iPhone'a
^^ heh >> >> Android's Linux kernels are supported (maintained?) by Linaro. > > With my Linaro hat on I must object. Depending on what you meant the > statement above is either highly inaccurate or simply untrue. Hence the question mark. :) > > Android kernel situation is complicated and varies per board/SoC. What Linaro > does is try to upstream and unify the kernel for Linaro member companies SoCs. What does that mean in practice? > This is far from finished and uniform. The "BSP" kernel that hardware vendors > provide is not supported by Linaro and in fact often contains code that > cannot go upstream. What does it use this proprietary code for? To know the APIs or to get other hardware interface info? Isn't that a little risky? Won't proprietary, and potentially patented IP leak into the Linaro work? (Not that I believe in IP.) > Linaro has several trees, including a grand unification tree that tries to > support all the member companies chips in one tree (and one binary, thanks to > device trees) but this effort is years away (my personal estimate, I don't > speak for the organization). In addition we have several trees for > normal/androidized kernel for each board. In the latest 2011.10 release > hardware was not supported in 100% on any board that I'm aware of. > > Having said that the term "supported" seems inappropriate to me. We do work > on those boards though. How would you define it? > >> Anything that runs Android can run GNU/Linux. > > This is a gross oversimplification IMHO. You usually get androidized BSP > kernel from a few months/years ago with binary parts that have no > corresponding source code. Good luck booting vanilla kernel there. But it appears to me that all the official boards that are targets for Linaro can run a vanilla kernel, is that not the case? If not, what BSP stuff are you referring to - graphics acceleration? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ddc2b424-94d6-4397-8396-c98ac890b...@jeremiahfoster.com
