> Google soft forked years ago with Android and the Android kernel is way behind what happens in the Linux kernel and has lots of custom patches. That's not re

> Google soft forked years ago with Android and the Android kernel is way behind what happens in the Linux kernel and has lots of custom patches. That's not really true at all? Upstream finally took a lot of the stuff they objected to almost a decade ago (like wakelocks & binder), and since then Google has reduced the amount of forks not increased them (like contributing F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE to memfd to allow memfd to be a viable replacement for ashmem: https://lwn.net/Articles/768785/ https://lwn.net/Articles/768785/ ) And then the most recent biggest "downstream patches" for Linux where around the scheduler, and that's all been upstreamed, too (and again quite a while ago), in the form of EAS: https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/linux-kernel/energy-aware-scheduling https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-sof...