Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline

Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline by metildaa on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @12:01AM (#18500261)

The funny thing is the SoC in these smartphones can totally run Linux & Darwin, but the driver support for the peripherals is shovelware. Vendors do the bare minimum to suppprt the hardware, and you get a mess.

Its frankly shocking that the Allwinner A10/A20/A64 (which can run Win10!) /H3/H5/H6 has nearly complete mainline kernel support, whereas nearly any of the smartphones made since 2008 can't boot mainline Linux and drive their cameras, screen, GPS, etc. Its a huge failing of the industry.

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Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline by milankragujevic on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @08:57AM (#18502663)

Allwinner can't run Win10 (hah, A33 can barely run Android :/ ) and has barely any mainline support on actual physical commercial devices (i.e. tablets, not SBCs)...

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Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline by metildaa on Friday November 23, 2018 @03:28AM (#18515147)

I don't know what your on about, Windows 10 can run UWP apps just fine on any Allwinner A64 based device: https://github.com/Leeway213/Win10-IoT-for-A64-Release-Notes...

With regard to supporting tablets, most of the older Allwinner based tablets have feature parity between the mainline kernel and the vendor BSP kernel: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

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