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>So the way I see it (coming from a dev, though not a ROM dev): Android has multiple layers. It has hardware-dependent code (such as the kernel) and hardware-independent code (such…

I'm another "project lead" at LineageOS: Despite being based on AOSP, omni/lineage/etc all have pretty different features, so usually it takes a nontrivial amount of effort to go b…

The kernel you get is entirely up to the SoC vendor. Snapdragon 820/821 ships with 3.18. Snapdragon 830 ships with 4.4. Snapdragon 830+1 will ship with 4.9 There's a huge amount of…

Google does this already[1]. As far as I know, it's possible to boot Android off a mainline kernel - the main obstacle is the lack of drivers in the upstream kernel. Certainly, a l…

The kernel isn't the problem - one of the devices I maintain runs 7.1 (mostly) fine on Linux 3.0[1]. The issues lie in the HALs - which translate between the standard Android camer…

The real issue for the Nexus 6 is that Qualcomm has completely abandoned their 32-bit mobile platforms. Look for "8084" here: https://wiki.codeaurora.org/xwiki/bin/QAEP/release - t…

Probably not - Lineage can only patch issues that are present in the open source code. Since this issue exists in the firmware, it's up to device manufacturers to release an update…