Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2019-05-28 , 09:05
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#3223
Originally Posted by biketool View Post
With FOSS drivers we can port them to just about anything, but android goes one worse and doesn't even use a fully compatible kernel and it seems that convergence of the android and mainline Linux kernel has been put way off or abandoned.
Work to bring the upstream mainline kernel & kernels that Android devices use to be more in line is ongoing:
https://lwn.net/Articles/771974/

It's just not an easy task, as you are basically trying to hit a moving target and there are other aspects, such as the device manufacturer that is first to market with a device (even though it's kernel is hacked to hell) might have an economic advantage.

But on the other hand, the divergence from the mainline just got so bad that something basically needs to be done and progress is certainly being done and the delta is shrinking.
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