Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:48:45 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: what determines how firmware is loaded? (Q. on request_firmware details) |
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:27:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:23:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Unfortunately 3.0 is what ICS is based off so the overwhelming majority > > of vendor code is going to be based on it until the next Android > > release. With my vendor hat on I have to say that we find our upstream > > first policy extremely effective so we shouldn't be part of the issue.
> That's great, and understandable, but the original poster said they were > using an old Ubuntu release, and the ability for the community to > support bugs in older kernel releases like this is very difficult as you > well know.
Oh, I missed that bit of the thread - if they're using a desktop distro then upgrading should be much less painful than it would be with a typical vendor kernel.
> The next Android release should be "any day now" so hopefully we move on > from 3.0 soon...
Well, by the end of the summer or something - even when the release drops there's always lag while the releases propagate out to the wider market. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |