Android-x86 6.0 Marshmallow Uses Mesa 12.0, Adds F2FS File-System

[droidhacker]

Android 6.0 is nice. I hope they get out version 7.0 Nougat soon tho, even though no apps require 7.0 yet.

It is really nice that Android-x86 uses kernel 4.4, my Nexus 5X still use kernel 3.10.

Android 7.0 is a lot more interesting than whether or not a particular piece of software requires it or not. Android 7.0 is the version that introduces multi-window side-by-side and floating modes, which actually makes it useful for the kind of hardware typically targeted by Android x86.

[uid313]

Why isn't Intel helping out Android-x86 to to it up to version 7.0?

Why is Android-x86 managed as a separate project to side of Android instead of being handled by mainline Android upstreams by Intel and Google together?

[starshipeleven]

Why isn't Intel helping out Android-x86 to to it up to version 7.0?

Because there is no OEM that managed to sell Intel tablets and smartphones with Android in decent enough quantities, and none seems to care about the fact that Android devices have a short lifespan.

Which is sad imho, as a tablet with a UEFI firmware and Intel SoC would be THE Android Tablet, Period. No silly update issues, no bs with bootloaders, no shit with drivers and hardware initialization, and so on.

Why is Android-x86 managed as a separate project to side of Android instead of being handled by mainline Android upstreams by Intel and Google together?

Technically speaking Android supports x86 upstream.
What this project does is rebase Android on a desktop linux kernel and add Mesa and other such stuff to make it work, and it is similar to what most OEMs do to make it work on their own hardware platform.