Well, having them in the main source tree doesn't mean that they'll be enabled in all (or any) common distributions.
JBQ On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Joel Stanley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:45, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Many critical aspects of Android deeply rely on having those custom >> modules in the linux kernel, since that's how the entire IPC mechanism >> works. Without that, no content providers, no services, etc... There's >> therefore little hope of getting a multi-process Android running on >> top of a linux kernel that wouldn't have those modules. > > On the other hand, as of 2.6.29-rc1 the Android kernel drivers are in > drivers/staging in Linus' tree, so having a kernel that contains the > Android modules shouldn't be an issue. > > > <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree;f=drivers/staging/android> > > Joel > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
