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

[Pavel Machek]

On Thu 2015-07-23 13:21:19, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > Interested people:
> >
> > Sebastian Reichel <sre at kernel.org>
> > Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com>
> 
> I'm adding Björn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at sonymobile.com> to this list.
> 
> Björn has as of yesterday booted a mainline kernel on the SONY
> Xperia Z3 and his company has demonstrated strong interest in
> getting the mainline kernel to run on their handsets.
> https://plus.google.com/102276447148493441479/posts/amRvpE8piSw

Yes. Plus, there seems to be group at Samsung. Trats is a cellphone iirc.

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2011-December/078428.html

Signed-off-by: HeungJun, Kim <riverful.kim at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>

									Pavel

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