Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline

[Anca Emanuel]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> HI Greg,
>
> On Nov 6, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>
>> Are you willing to maintain the android kernel code in the mainline
>> kernel tree?  If so, I will be glad to add it back in, but as no one was
>> willing to do the work, it was removed.  It's as simple as that.
>
> I'm willing to do this. I'll start off initially with support for TI OMAP 35xx
> and TI OMAP 4440, build and test initially on the Gumstix Overo,
> BeagleBoard and PandaBoard.
>
> I'll start with v2.6.37-rc1 and android-froyo-2.2, and try to do the required
> changes to get it accepted into mainline by v2.6.39.
>
> Elvis Dowson

Read this: https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1105?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Linaro+Cycle+2+Requirements+18+September+2010.pdf
( http://is.gd/gNP7y )

[quote]
Android Strategy
Sponsor: Yves V. (Freescale)
Leads: Loïc, Scott B.
WGs: Kernel Consolidation, Toolchain
...

A2.2 Support upstreaming of Android patches
[/quote]

Linaro is going in the same direction.
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