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When you attempt to rebuild the Fairphone 3 kernel on a modern distro (i.e. Arch) and you get a very odd failure when building the kernel modules, install the `aur/ncurses5-compat-libs` package and then all will work properly.

Took me forever to try to figure out what was wrong with the kernel code itself, should have realized it was the host system issue instead. Hermetic Android builds must have come later in the Android release cycle.
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The new EU regulation requiring longer "full support" (5 years) for mobile devices is going to be fun!

Companies will have to update their kernel to a newer version over the lifespan of the device in order to stay in compliance.

As I heard recently in a meeting with one Android vendor, "Android updates consist of over 2000 programs updated to the latest version, what's so hard about adding 1 more to it?"

So if the requirement from Android to have a 6 year supported kernel version is now gone, maybe we don't have to do it upstream either? That will make so many people very happy.

Also, Apple has been doing this for a long time for their devices, why do people feel it is somehow impossible? :)

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12797-Designing-mobile-phones-and-tablets-to-be-sustainable-ecodesign_en
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The 4.9.y kernel is finally end-of-life, it is gone from the tracking board.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Me: nobody sends more than 999 patches in a series, so let's "\d{1,3}/\d{1,3}"
@gregkh: [PATCH 6.1 0000/1146]
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