Android mainlining project
Hello all,
I would like to announce the beginning of a project to make a concerted effort to mainline patches and features from Android into the mainline Linux kernel.
At the recent kernel summit in Prague, there was a discussion about re-evaluating some of the Android-specific features that are found in Google's android kernel, and looking at whether and how to incorporate them into the mainline (kernel.org) kernel.
Various parties, including individual developers, the CE workgroup in the Linux Foundation, and a group at Linaro have been working on different aspects of this. A wiki page and mailing list have been created to help coordinate our efforts and avoid duplication and confusion.
The wiki page for this effort (still under construction) is
at: http://elinux.org/Android_Mainlining_Project
There's a mailing list if you wish to follow discussions about this project. It's available at:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ce-android-mainline
If you are interested in this work, please join the mailing list or send me an e-mail. Some interesting things are already happening. I'll send a status message to the ce-android-mainline list in a day or two to let interested parties know what's currently going on.
Regards,
-- Tim
=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
=============================
Quoted 12 lines · Tim Bird
Hello all,
I would like to announce the beginning of a project to make a concerted effort to mainline patches and features from Android into the mainline Linux kernel.
At the recent kernel summit in Prague, there was a discussion about re-evaluating some of the Android-specific features that are found in Google's android kernel, and looking at whether and how to incorporate them into the mainline (kernel.org) kernel.
Quoted 8 lines
Various parties, including individual developers, the CE workgroup in the Linux Foundation, and a group at Linaro have been working on different aspects of this. A wiki page and mailing list have been created to help coordinate our efforts and avoid duplication and confusion.
The wiki page for this effort (still under construction) is
at: http://elinux.org/Android_Mainlining_Project
Actually, current linux-next tree is not including ashmem(anonymous shared memory).
When I checked android kernel features of linux-next(20111219), Wakelock API feature(./kernel/power/*lock.c) still isn't appeared in linux-next tree.
Quoted 25 lines
There's a mailing list if you wish to follow discussions about this project. It's available at:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ce-android-mainlineIf you are interested in this work, please join the mailing list or send me an e-mail. Some interesting things are already happening. I'll send a status message to the ce-android-mainline list in a day or two to let interested parties know what's currently going on.
Regards,
-- Tim=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
=============================--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Signature · 9 lines
Best regards, Geunsik Lim ( Samsung Electronics ) Blog : http://blog.naver.com/invain/ Homepage: http://leemgs.fedorapeople.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Quoted 8 lines · Geunsik Lim
Quoted 2 lines · Tim Bird
The wiki page for this effort (still under construction) is
at: http://elinux.org/Android_Mainlining_ProjectActually, current linux-next tree is not including ashmem(anonymous shared memory).
When I checked android kernel features of linux-next(20111219), Wakelock APIfeature(./kernel/power/*lock.c)still isn't appeared in linux-next tree.
Both of these (wakelocks and ashmem) are listed as "not mainlined" in the table on the wiki page. Ashmem is apparently being worked on (see the lwn.net article).
-- Tim
=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
=============================