Someone more skilled and knowledgeable than me in mainlining could probably get most of the remaining things done in a couple days, but I need to read a lot of docs and try out a lot of things.

[–] jdr8@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That is some impressive stuff, well done!

I’m a software developer but nowhere near kernel stuff.

I do have a curiosity to learn more about kernel development.

Definitely will check it out later.

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's not that hard, the hardest part is finding the right info, I don't even know C. I just enable the components that have drivers and leave the rest until someone writes the driver. :)

[–] jdr8@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Fair enough.

But looks cool regardless.

[–] pantherina@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Can you check how old your kernel is?

uname -r

[–] jdr8@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Mine is 4.19.248

[–] pantherina@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

https://endoflife.date/linux

Very longterm, support ended over 1 year ago. That kernel is 7 years old...

Android is very conservative with kernel upgrades, but this is insane.

[–] jdr8@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I didn’t know this.

Kernel is still a gray area to me.

Can I update it while maintaining Saifish?

[–] pantherina@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You mostly rely on vendor kernels, that is the point. The operating system would have updated it for you if it was actually still maintained.

Good operating systems will tell you that this OS is not secure anymore (if it ever was). But many that people use dont say anything while maybe even still shipping updates, so people think it is fine.

[–] jdr8@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

That is very good information.

Didn’t know about this.

Thank you very much.