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Android to take an “upstream first” development model for the Linux kernel (arstechnica.com)
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The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress report from the Android team. Android 12—which will be out any day now—promises to bring Android closer than ever to mainline Linux by shipping Google's "Generic Kernel Image" (GKI) to end-users.

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[–] gammarays@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Note that this is an old article from 2 years ago and that GKI is already implemented in Android

[–] Fidelity9373@artemis.camp 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I saw "Android 12" and got confused. 13's been out for a while now, and 14 has open betas on some phones...

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