On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:52 AM, jan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1 Okt., 00:37, Chris Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > The kernel is updated periodically, and released when new Android > > releases are published. Additionally, patches make it into OTA > > updates. Google only knows about and can update Google Experience > > Devices; > The Samsung Galaxy S "with Google" I own is one of those. > Until now, it was never updated OTA (can you uptade Eclair OTA?). > Today it still does not have Froyo, let alone 2.2.1 that contains a > fix for the information disclosure bug in the browser. > Just FYI, if you think back to the g1, OTA updates have been a part of android since the very first device. (In fact, if it hadn't been a requirement, the g1's crippling storage problems wouldn't be nearly as bad. Literally half of the flash is unavailable, much of it to facilitate OTA updating.) I believe as of 1.6 or so the majority of the code made it into the open source project, although before that a few of us took the partial code apart (mostly JF iirc) and worked out how to interface to it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
