Android 1.6 on 1.5 kernel.

[Tim]

Hi, I have a T-Mobile Pulse and am trying to get Android 1.6 running
on it (currently it runs a butchered 1.5 version). We have the kernel
source, including patches from the code aurora forum for the
architecture, and some drivers and other patches from Huawei (the
manufacturers).

It looks like porting all these patches to the latest kernel will be a
decent amount of work, so my question is: Does anything in the Android
1.6 userspace depend on the 1.6 kernel? Can I run the 1.6 userspace on
top of the 1.5 kernel?

Thanks.

[hikeit]

Not sure if this helps... we're running kernel 2.6.25 (which was last
officially used with android 1.1)... and it works fine in 1.5 and 1.6.
So... there aren't any *specific* requirements, but you may notice
certain things don't quite succeed, for example in our kernel we don't
have user wakelocks enabled, which makes certain features freak out
occasionally.