[Cialug] Kernel?

[Scott Yates]

That is a good point, though the kernel is really separate from the user
space apps and drivers/modules isn't it?


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:

> I'll take a different viewpoint from the other Linux kernel fans (I am a
> fan, too, though!).  The MAINLINE Linux kernel is remarkably bug-free.  The
> Linux kernel that is found in just about any version of Android running on
> a mobile device is buggy as all hell.  The reason being that Samsung, LG,
> Asus, or whoever bring eMMC chips, USB HSICs, power management ICs, and a
> new collection of CPUs, media codec ICs, and GPUs with every new phone or
> tablet.  They don't bother contributing that code to the Linux mainline, so
> it never gets reviewed, and customers are left to think that (luckily)
> Android is to blame for crashing or hanging for seconds at a time.
>
> That said, Linux is being kinda pushy about not accepting any code that
> doesn't use the device tree model, even if the kernel being used in the end
> product is pre-DT.  I know that some developers at (or possibly just users
> of boards created by)  Hardkernel (a company that uses Samsung's SoCs to
> build little ARM Android/Linux dev boards) have been working to try to get
> the kernels that Samsung provides converted to the DT spec.
>
> So, I have seen a bunch of buggy ARM-oriented Linux kernels, but none of
> them were ever seen by the Linux kernel team.  They were derivative works
> based on the kernel, really.
>
> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>
> Sent from my ASUS Transformer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com>
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Sent: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 9:45 PM
> Subject: [Cialug] Kernel?
>
> How would you describe or review the Linux kernel?  I read
> a post today on a C++ newsgroup that described it as buggy.
> The author of the post is a knowledgeable guy in my opinion.
> I haven't found it to be buggy, but I wonder if it is.  Tia.
>
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