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nine_k on Oct 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bazel 1.0

AFAICT Android is a pain to upgrade because of custom closed-source drivers and lack of ABI stability in Linux, so you need to recompile a driver for a newer kernel.

Android is not a Google's internal product, unlike Bazel.

panpanna on Oct 18, 2019 | [–]

Last week we had a major security vulnerability in Android just because Google can't user the same Linux kernel that everyone else are using.

There exist LTS kernel versions for a reason, you know.

Grazester on Oct 18, 2019 | [–]

This. Treble is suppose be their ABI

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