>So the way I see it (coming from a dev, though not a ROM dev): Android has multiple layers. It has hardware-dependent code (such as the kernel) and hardware-independent code (such as bionic or Java), sort of like in…
I'm another "project lead" at LineageOS: Despite being based on AOSP, omni/lineage/etc all have pretty different features, so usually it takes a nontrivial amount of effort to go between the two (although it's…
The kernel you get is entirely up to the SoC vendor. Snapdragon 820/821 ships with 3.18. Snapdragon 830 ships with 4.4. Snapdragon 830+1 will ship with 4.9 There's a huge amount of work involved in porting a chipset…
Google does this already[1]. As far as I know, it's possible to boot Android off a mainline kernel - the main obstacle is the lack of drivers in the upstream kernel. Certainly, a lot of the SoCs (especially in older…
The kernel isn't the problem - one of the devices I maintain runs 7.1 (mostly) fine on Linux 3.0[1]. The issues lie in the HALs - which translate between the standard Android camera/sensor/telephony APIs and the…
The real issue for the Nexus 6 is that Qualcomm has completely abandoned their 32-bit mobile platforms. Look for "8084" here: https://wiki.codeaurora.org/xwiki/bin/QAEP/release - the Snapdragon 805 hasn't received a…
Probably not - Lineage can only patch issues that are present in the open source code. Since this issue exists in the firmware, it's up to device manufacturers to release an update including the fixed firmware, which…
>So the way I see it (coming from a dev, though not a ROM dev): Android has multiple layers. It has hardware-dependent code (such as the kernel) and hardware-independent code (such as bionic or Java), sort of like in…
I'm another "project lead" at LineageOS: Despite being based on AOSP, omni/lineage/etc all have pretty different features, so usually it takes a nontrivial amount of effort to go between the two (although it's…
The kernel you get is entirely up to the SoC vendor. Snapdragon 820/821 ships with 3.18. Snapdragon 830 ships with 4.4. Snapdragon 830+1 will ship with 4.9 There's a huge amount of work involved in porting a chipset…
Google does this already[1]. As far as I know, it's possible to boot Android off a mainline kernel - the main obstacle is the lack of drivers in the upstream kernel. Certainly, a lot of the SoCs (especially in older…
The kernel isn't the problem - one of the devices I maintain runs 7.1 (mostly) fine on Linux 3.0[1]. The issues lie in the HALs - which translate between the standard Android camera/sensor/telephony APIs and the…
The real issue for the Nexus 6 is that Qualcomm has completely abandoned their 32-bit mobile platforms. Look for "8084" here: https://wiki.codeaurora.org/xwiki/bin/QAEP/release - the Snapdragon 805 hasn't received a…
Probably not - Lineage can only patch issues that are present in the open source code. Since this issue exists in the firmware, it's up to device manufacturers to release an update including the fixed firmware, which…