i.MX8 Android BSP and Generic Kernel Image

territao — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 23:05:16 GMT

Hello,

Starting from Android 11, Generic Kernel Image addresses kernel fragmentation by unifying the core kernel and moving SoC and board support out of the core kernel into loadable modules. The GKI kernel presents a stable Kernel Module Interface (KMI) for kernel modules, so modules and kernel can be updated independently. Please refer to this page for more info https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/generic-kernel-image

I'm writing to ask NXP's plan to support Generic Kernel Image on i.MX8 family processors Android BSP.

In the previous versions of NXP BSP, for example, Android 8.1 BSP, when we apply security patches cited in the Android Security Bulletin (ASB) there are a series of merge conflicts, for Android 11 or newer version BSP, if NXP chooses to comply with Generic Kernel Image, with the separation between vender modules and core kernel, will we be able to directly apply security patches to NXP BSP?

Thanks,

Terri

Re: i.MX8 Android BSP and Generic Kernel Image

Zhiming_Liu — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 02:47:35 GMT

We have support GKI in Android 11 ,you can see this link:https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/linux-imx/tree/arch/arm64/configs?h=android-11.0.0_2.6.0

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