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.

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