The Android Common Kernel is about to remove support for the RISC-V architecture. Android Common Kernel is Google’s fork of the upstream Linux kernel but with Android-specific additions.

It seems like Google is working hard to update and upstream the Linux kernel ... a diagram labeled "Android Next Generation" that showed what this proposed kernel architecture would look like.

Android is the opposite: only minimal changes to the kernel, but a user-space wholly unlike that of any other Unix system. In fact, Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux ...

Ed] Some parts of Android will be familiar, such as the Linux Kernel, OpenGL ... Let's start off by taking a look at the overall system architecture--the key layers and components that make ...