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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
When Sony announced their work on mainline Linux a year ago I was cautiously optimistic. Now a year on and it's great to see them collaborating with Jolla but I found this page which details current functionality on their open devices and I see that there is no mention of mainline kernel support, just old Android kernels. What concerns me is that the Xperia X has two kernels listed: 3.10 which is 3 years old and 3.18 which is 2 years old. 3.10 seems to be feature complete whilst 3.18 has a lot of hardware listed as WIP. That doesn't really inspire me with a lot of confidence in their mainline kernel support. A handful of N900 kernel hackers have achieved more than this in their spare time. Wake me up when Sony have a device which has mainline kernel support close to that of the N900.
I agree that is an old kernel. How many patches have been made since the 3.10 kernel? Is this Sony or Android still using an older kernel?

I am currently using the 4.9.4 kernel on my desktop and laptop.
 

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