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

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:14:41 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> wrote:

> 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.

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

Seems like a reasonable topic, especially since KS is being held in
South Korea this year.

Although is this something to be a core topic or a tech topic? Does
this affect all subsystems, or just a set of drivers? Note, a core
topic wont get as much time for discussion as a tech topic would.

Also, what is expected to be solved at KS?

-- Steve