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> infact google still uses a 2.2 kernel with all custom back ported updates of the last 30 years. Say what?
by kstrauser 2y ago
> infact google still uses a 2.2 kernel with all custom back ported updates of the last 30 years.
Say what?
- mbilker 2y agoThey are trying to get off or have gotten off their kernel fork called "Prodkernel" for some time now. https://lwn.net/Articles/871195/ https://lwn.net/Articles/871195/ https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/LF-Mentoring-Series-Jan-2021-An-Upstream-Friendly-Source-Control-Model-And-Tooling.pdf https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/0...
- yencabulator 2y agoAnd ProdKernel generally lags mainstream by only a few years, as can be seen in the things you linked to. The change being talked here is moving from merge ~2 years to merge all the time. Saying they're stuck on something from 1999 is ridiculous.