With Android Oreo, Google is introducing Linux kernel requirements

Posted by bob on Sep 3, 2017 7:09 PM CST
Beta News; By Mark Wycislik-Wilson
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Until now, as pointed out by XDA Developers, OEMs have been free to use whatever Linux kernel they wanted to create their own version of Android. Of course, their builds still had to pass Google's other tests, but the kernel number itself was not an issue. Moving forward, Android devices running Oreo must use at least kernel 3.18, but there are more specific requirements to meet as well.

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