Linux kernel with goldfish emulator

[Amy]

Hello,
I am trying to make Linux kernel work with Goldfish emulator/ android-sdk-linux. I've referred many articles where they had mentioned that Goldfish emulator doesn't work with other linux kernels except 2.6.x and 3.4 etc. I want to make it work with linux kernel >3.11.
Does it run with compiled linux kernel>3.11? Also, would it run with the real device (say Nexus 7)?

Thanks.
Amy

[Glenn Kasten]

The git log shows some recent activity on 3.10, but I don't know if it actually works though:

   https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/goldfish.git/+log/android-goldfish-3.10/

Sorry I don't know anything about 3.11.

It would not support a real device since it doesn't have the right drivers.

[Tez]

The kernel for the nexus 7 is open sourced.

http://source.android.com/source/building-kernels.html

[Neta Zmora]

If you want to know the kernel version of the emulator device, run it and then do 'adb -e shell dmesg'.

The first line gives you the kernel version.

I recently pulled and built an AOSP head and the emulator's kernel version is currently 3.4.0.

BR,

Neta