Thread: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
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Originally Posted by ka9yhd View Post
I agree that is an old kernel. How many patches have been made since the 3.10 kernel?
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$ git rev-list v3.10..HEAD --count
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Originally Posted by ka9yhd View Post
Is this Sony or Android still using an older kernel?
Both. Google choose a particular kernel for each release of Android however Sony are free to use whatever kernel they like.

Originally Posted by nthn View Post
I think Android is at 3.18. Security patches get backported as and when necessary, though.
That's not strictly true. Most Android OEMs are lazy and do not ensure devices are kept up to date with the latest release of a particular kernel. There's a further problem in that Google have no strategy in place to replace a kernel when it reaches EOL. 3.10 will reach EOL in October and 3.18 was already EOL'd last January. Security fixes will be missed as some kernel devs have been known to use cryptic commit messages to hide the fact that they are fixing security vulnerabilities.

Originally Posted by kinggo View Post
Marshmallow is on 3.18. Nougat is on 4.4.
Correct, however according to Sony's Current platform functionality page, their Xperia devices on Nougat are all using either 3.10 or 3.18.

Originally Posted by mariusmssj View Post
That is a big difference, do any of Sony phones run nougat?
See above.
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