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Sadly that's pretty much the standards.
Many smartphones rely on hardwares, with drivers that aren't in the kernel-tree and can't be easily ported to newer versions, thus requiring the vendors to ship outdated kernels. -
SomeNone7134yMy work involves, among other things, providing support for Fibre Channel switches made by Brocade (now Broadcom). Their kernels are even older:
Linux version 2.6.14.2 (swrel@hq1-ub-ecbld-390) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 Thu Sep 17 18:47:00 PDT 2015 -
hjk10156964y@Parzi those are security patches not upgrades. This is common practice with embedded systems. You don't need a shiny new kernel anyway. An optimised one for your hardware will do better. It can take a lot of effort to up the drivers to a new kernel version.
> android 8
> linux kernel 3.18
this is a joke right
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