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by hnisnotreddit 4521 days ago
Android has been using mainlined for a few kernel revisions now.
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Nope. You can boot Android using a mainline kernel, but there's a lot of stuff that's missing/broken. Like power management.

The Android Mainlining project continues to trudge onward, it's not complete. There's a decent chunk of stuff sitting in staging as well that hasn't been accepted by mainline, but still more that hasn't even gotten to staging. There's also a few things where mainline rejected Google's version and provided an alternative, but Android was never changed to use the new thing (Alarms/Timers fall into this case)