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So is this a way around mainlining all of the silicon vendor's various kernels? I have heard that each vendor just hacks their hardware into the 3.10.X and then just keeps a repo of it to meet open source requirements. Because they are unable to make the quality requirements to get their code upstream.

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By the time anyone can get all the code required to support a modern SoC upstream in Linux, it's already obsolete.

Perhaps it's time for a Halium/libhybris approach. If I understand correctly, Ubuntu Touch and other GNU/Linux platforms would use an upstream kernel (4.x) to boot a device and delegate to an lxc container to pull in only whatever binary-blob hardware support from a 3.10 Android kernel was necessary.

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