Running Android devices on mainline kernels
Running Android devices on mainline kernels
Posted Nov 21, 2018 17:53 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Running Android devices on mainline kernels by hailfinger
Parent article: Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
Great summary thanks.
> If you're extremely lucky and there's a vendor willing to create a new device based on a two-year-old SoC,
This timing aspect is not really about "luck" and much more about latest shiny hardware. Random low-end example: the Nokia 2 was released in November 2017. It features a snapdragon 212 which was available for sampling in 2015 and just an evolution of the 210 (HW designers re-use^H copy-paste too)
https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_2-8513.php
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-212-APQ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qualcomm_Snapdragon...(2014-17)