Hi Subodh,

On 14 January 2014 23:32, Subodh Nijsure <subodh.nijsure@credenceid.com> wrote:
Hi,

I am working on project where we are currently using Android 4.1.2 on
our custom hardware. We are investigating moving our code based to
kitkat 4.4

I am wondering about pros & cons of using google AOSP v/s using linaro
android distribution.

Has there been any discussion/blog posts that would help anyone that
is trying to make that decision? I have done the normal search haven't
found anything substantial.

It would have been good if you had given the processor that you are working on, generally AOSP releases are meant only for the Google supported platforms, in Linaro distribution we port and support other processors from our  members. Each release is validated thoroughly for functionality, etc.

We also have latest kernels working for few processors, AOSP is on very old kernel versions, similarly we are on latest GCC tool chain. For every Linaro monthly release we also move to latest AOSP and have this validated on all the supported platforms. We fix all the issues found while integrating and porting the latest sources working on our member hardware platforms.

So ideally Linaro distribution tries to be on latest of all the software components and thoroughly validated.

We also had few optimizations done like Cortex strings on BIONIC, etc - they are already part of AOSP releases now. We are looking at few more optimization areas, will integrate them in our releases in coming months.

Also is there a published list of shipping hardware products that use
linaro-android distribution instead of AOSP?

No, we don't know the exact end products names, our releases are used by our members and there customers.

Regards,
Khasim
 
Thanks.
-Subodh

Note: I went through list of android related mailing list (
http://www.linaro.org/engineering/mailing-lists )  thought this list
would appropriate for this posting if not, point me right way please.

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