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

Bintian bintian.wang at huawei.com
Wed Aug 5 07:05:23 UTC 2015


On 2015/8/5 3:39, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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
I 'd like to nominate myself for this topic.

Thanks and Best regards,



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