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diff --git a/en/devices/tech/ota/ab_updates.html b/en/devices/tech/ota/ab_updates.html index fee00bc2..871d8f63 100644 --- a/en/devices/tech/ota/ab_updates.html +++ b/en/devices/tech/ota/ab_updates.html @@ -31,10 +31,20 @@ repair and warranty centers. This approach is already explored successfully by other commercial-grade operating systems, such as <a href="https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os">ChromeOS</a>, and Android 8.0 - comes with the necessary platform changes to conduct streaming updates. Android - 7.0 and later support streaming updates with the correct version of <a - href="https://www.android.com/gms/">Google Mobile Services (GMS)</a> - installed.</p> + comes with the necessary platform changes to conduct streaming updates.</p> + +<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> Android 7.1, in which A/B updates were +introduced, requires the following patches to be cherrypicked before streaming +updates can be enabled. This is true whether using <a +href="https://www.android.com/gms/">Google Mobile Services (GMS)</a> or any +other update client.</p> + +<ul> + <li><a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/333624">Allow to cancel a proxy resolution request</a></li> + <li><a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/333625">Fix terminating a transfer while resolving proxies</a></li> + <li><a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/333626">Add unittest for TerminateTrasnfer between ranges</a></li> + <li><a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/333627">Cleanup the RetryTimeoutCallback()</a></li> +</ul> <p> Users don't always have enough space on <code>/data</code> to download the @@ -620,7 +630,7 @@ depended on what updates you wanted to apply. The worst case would be a cache partition as large as the system image. With A/B updates there's no need to stash blocks (because you're always writing to a partition that isn't currently used) and with streaming A/B there's no need to download the whole OTA package -before applying it (see "How do streaming A/B updates work?").</p> +before applying it.</p> <h3 id="fstab">Fstab</h3> |