Det finns flera nivåer i OS eländet (ungefär som i Dantes Inferno?
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Det kan vara delvis Linux kernel låsningen för varje soc som ställer till det för uppgraderingar på Android nivån, och ligger bakom Xiaomis taktik med att hålla MIUI åtskilld.
"Android kernels are tied to SoCs, and devices never upgrade kernels, so anyone not running a Snapdragon 835 (or maybe the latest Exynos?) is out of luck."
Android users rejoice! Linux kernel LTS releases are now good for 6 years
For Android, Google grabs a Linux LTS kernel and changes it into the "Android Common" kernel. This can then go to an SoC vendor like Qualcomm, which modifies it to work on a particular SoC. Then an OEM like Samsung can take this and build it into a phone. By the time this is all done and a device is ready to be released, we're already most of the way through the two years of kernel support. This doesn't even cover the consumer ownership lifecycle. Google provides three years of security updates for Android releases, which can mean years of Google having to maintain an old LTS kernel all by itself.
Last edited: Jun 10, 2018