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Google actually made quite significant changes to Linux kernel (Binder, ashmem, alarm timers, wake-locks, adb gadget support, userspace gpio, paranoid networkin

Google actually made quite significant changes to Linux kernel (Binder, ashmem, alarm timers, wake-locks, adb gadget support, userspace gpio, paranoid networking, etc) to make it work. So yes, it could run on another kernel, provided they would be allowed to make such changes on it too.

jbuzbee 14y ago
And that's the great thing about Linux. Companies can optimize for their use and then bring their changes back into the mainline where everyone can benefit: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/android-and-linux-re-merge-into-one-operating-system/10625 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/android-and-linux-re-m...
KirinDave 14y ago
It should be noted that the alarm timers and wake-locks were the big showstoppers, and the most recent kernel release[0] offered a more generic implementation which is a superset of Android's current functionality: [0] http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.5#head-e04ea6fe9005ea057124123d7834624cd445e124 http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.5#head-e04ea6fe9005ea057124...