Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Moving to Android 6 base

2016-07-30 Thread Ted Gould
The reason to use the Android drivers is that in many cases they're the only drivers that exist for many of the chips phones are using today. The drivers are (generally speaking) owned by the chip manufacturers, not by Android/Google, they're just using the Android interfaces for writing them.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Moving to Android 6 base

2016-07-30 Thread Marcos Alonso
Hi to all. Let me ask a basic question. Might be due to some misunderstanding of the messages I have been reading. It seems UT is getting benefit from Android drivers. I guess to reduce the development cost and time. If so, I assume it means that UT will somehow depend on Android? At least some

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Moving to Android 6 base

2016-07-29 Thread francisco mulas caracuel
El viernes, 29 de julio de 2016 16:26:48 (CEST), Jim Hodapp escribió: > From my understanding, unless this has changed, certain existing phones > will never move to Android 6 or even Android 5 (mako for example). There > are newer phones that will require Android 6 and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Moving to Android 6 base

2016-07-29 Thread Nikos Chatziioakimidis
On Παρασκευή, 29 Ιουλίου 2016 11:47:47 Π.Μ. EEST, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote: Hi, I've read here http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-touch-ota-13-update-to-rename-the-libertine-scope-to-desktop-apps-506743.shtml that "(...) but considering that Ubuntu Touch OTA-13

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Moving to Android 6 base

2016-07-29 Thread Rodney Dawes
I would suspect not, as all the currently supported devices don't have Android 6 available, and aren't even on Android 5, though a couple are Android 5 based rather than 4. I don't think ubports devices are moving to 6 either, and IIRC, mariogrip's goal there is get all the devices on 5.x for

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Moving to Android 6 base

2016-07-29 Thread Jim Hodapp
>From my understanding, unless this has changed, certain existing phones will never move to Android 6 or even Android 5 (mako for example). There are newer phones that will require Android 6 and those will be the ones to support it. We have back ported something from Android 6 though, such as the

[Ubuntu-phone] Moving to Android 6 base

2016-07-29 Thread Krzysztof Tataradziński
Hi, I've read here http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-touch-ota-13-update-to-rename-the-libertine-scope-to-desktop-apps-506743.shtml that "(...) but considering that Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 will finally move to the Android 6.0 Marshmallow BSP (Board Support Package), it should also support new