[Idea - kernel] potenital chance to makes all Fairphones faster

[Agno]

I asked some years ago about why FP does not use a mainline kernel:

Why is FP2 kernel so old?

Disclaimer: I don’t know much about how Android works. The kernel for FP2 is version 3.4. The 3.4.x series was released in 2012 and was supported until 2016. I wonder: why it is used in FP2 ? Are there any problem using a newer version ? I don’t know very much about but a newer kernel should add new feature (I recently read about Anbox which uses containers) but should also receive some security patches directly from linux people.

Another bid discussion in this one:

Kernel hackers: upstream kernel for FP2 OpenOS?

This is a #wiki post, feel free to edit your findings and information in! Introduction Following up on an earlier thread for FP3 brainstorming, I am curious whether people are up for the challenge of building an FP Open OS build around the upstream kernel. Why? Upstream has security fixes first. Upstream drivers have a bigger chance of being audited: you know what you run! Upstream gets most attention from ARM (through their Linaro people) in terms of code optimisation and arch-wide bugfixes. …