On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to announce the beginning of a project to > make a concerted effort to mainline patches and features > from Android into the mainline Linux kernel. > > At the recent kernel summit in Prague, there was a discussion > about re-evaluating some of the Android-specific features > that are found in Google's android kernel, and looking at > whether and how to incorporate them into the mainline (kernel.org) > kernel. > > Various parties, including individual developers, the > CE workgroup in the Linux Foundation, and a group at Linaro > have been working on different aspects of this. A wiki > page and mailing list have been created to help coordinate > our efforts and avoid duplication and confusion. > > The wiki page for this effort (still under construction) is > at: http://elinux.org/Android_Mainlining_Project Actually, current linux-next tree is not including ashmem(anonymous shared memory). When I checked android kernel features of linux-next(20111219), Wakelock API feature(./kernel/power/*lock.c) still isn't appeared in linux-next tree. > > There's a mailing list if you wish to follow discussions > about this project. It's available at: > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ce-android-mainline > > If you are interested in this work, please join the mailing > list or send me an e-mail. Some interesting things are already > happening. I'll send a status message to the ce-android-mainline > list in a day or two to let interested parties know what's currently > going on. > > Regards, > -- Tim > > ============================= > Tim Bird > Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation > Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment > ============================= > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Best regards, Geunsik Lim ( Samsung Electronics ) Blog : http://blog.naver.com/invain/ Homepage: http://leemgs.fedorapeople.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
