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Re:Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo by tetromino_ on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @08:31PM (#15137251)
OnePlus ships modern kernels.

My OnePlus 5 is using kernel 4.4.21 - this is with Nougat 7.1.1, by the way; no Oreo here yet.

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Re:Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo by murderfs on Thursday August 31, 2017 @02:29AM (#15138533)
OnePlus ships the kernel that Qualcomm gives them. The BSP for Snapdragon 835 (aka msm8998) is based on 4.4
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Re:Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo by khc on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:22PM (#15137444)
Ok I am very disappointing with Google in that case
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Re:Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo by forkbomb_ on Thursday August 31, 2017 @02:26AM (#15138520)
The kernel you get is entirely up to the SoC vendor.

Snapdragon 820/821 ships with 3.18. Snapdragon 830 ships with 4.4. Snapdragon 830+1 will ship with 4.9

There's a huge amount of work involved in porting a chipset from one kernel version to another. While I'm sure Google _could_ do it, it's ultimately not worth their while - they'd probably lose support from Qualcomm, and if they hit any weird bugs they'd be on their own.

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