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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline
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On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 01:44:45PM +0200, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com> wrote:
> > HI Greg,
> >
> > On Nov 6, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> >> Are you willing to maintain the android kernel code in the mainline
> >> kernel tree? ?If so, I will be glad to add it back in, but as no one was
> >> willing to do the work, it was removed. ?It's as simple as that.
> >
> > I'm willing to do this. I'll start off initially with support for TI OMAP 35xx
> > and TI OMAP 4440, build and test initially on the Gumstix Overo,
> > BeagleBoard and PandaBoard.
> >
> > I'll start with v2.6.37-rc1 and android-froyo-2.2, and try to do the required
> > changes to get it accepted into mainline by v2.6.39.
> >
> > Elvis Dowson
> 
> Read this: https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1105?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Linaro+Cycle+2+Requirements+18+September+2010.pdf
> ( http://is.gd/gNP7y )
> 
> [quote]
> Android Strategy
> Sponsor: Yves V. (Freescale)
> Leads: Lo?c, Scott B.
> WGs: Kernel Consolidation, Toolchain
> ...
> 
> A2.2 Support upstreaming of Android patches
> [/quote]
> 
> Linaro is going in the same direction.

That does not mean they will actually ever get to that work, or achieve
it...