Android to take an “upstream first” development model for the Linux kernel

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Android to take an “upstream first” development model for the Linux kernel
arstechnica.com

The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress report from the Android team. Android 12—which will be out any day now—promises to bring Android closer than ever to mainline Linux by shipping Google's "Generic Kernel Image" (GKI) to end-users.

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Note that this is an old article from 2 years ago and that GKI is already implemented in Android

I was about to say, I swear I've been reading articles about Android 14 dropping soon, and this is mentioning 12.

This year's Internet Explorer award goes to... the OP. lol

Yeah, I saw "Android 12" and got confused. 13's been out for a while now, and 14 has open betas on some phones...