[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Mainline kernel on a cellphone

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Tue Aug 4 19:39:40 UTC 2015


On Thu 2015-07-23 12:57:26, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> (Please cc me on replies).
> 
> Significant percentage of phones run Linux kernel today, but geting
> mainline kernel to work on a phone is very hard to do. (So hard, that
> newest device that is close to working on recent mainline was made in
> 2009.) There are multiple obstacles, including huge patches from
> silicon vendors, missing GNU/Linux userspace support that makes kernel
> testing hard, interfaces unsuitable for phones and power management
> problems.

I'd like to nominate myself for this topic (and the FPGA topic, but I
guess Alan is more suitable there).

Best regards,
									Pavel
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