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minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agoThat’s Android not mainline. You can’t easily upstream the changes and you are stuck with a single kernel version.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoThey regularly uplevel the kernel, and not all Android Linux code is inherently incompatible with mainline.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoTell that to my phone. Its possible some are worse than others but for Android devices the track level isn’t good. Just check out the mainline status of PostmarketOS devices.
That’s Android not mainline. You can’t easily upstream the changes and you are stuck with a single kernel version.
They regularly uplevel the kernel, and not all Android Linux code is inherently incompatible with mainline.
Tell that to my phone. Its possible some are worse than others but for Android devices the track level isn’t good. Just check out the mainline status of PostmarketOS devices.