> Today, it's on Google to maintain dead kernels that it is > still supporting. The 2016 Google Pixel shipped with > Linux kernel 3.18, which was first re

> Today, it's on Google to maintain dead kernels that it is > still supporting. The 2016 Google Pixel shipped with > Linux kernel 3.18, which was first released in 2014 and > hit end-of-life in January 2017. This is good. If it is going to take so long to go from kernel to shipped phone, that kernel should be supported for a reasonable amount of time.