Anyone got OMAP Linux working on their wing?
I looked a month ago and TI had not released any processor info on the OMAPs, so probably not for some time
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OMAP support has been part of the linux kernel for quite awhile now.
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I am a hardcore WM fanatic. I've developed several WM applications in the past and know Win32, VC++, and .NET very well. I broke down and bought this Nokia 770 because it's such a cool device and I hate booting my laptop to check quick web stuff. I'd really like to throw WM5 on it (Linux just aint cutting it). I have access to everything I need (I'm a MS partner and ISV) and wanted to know if anyone knew a rough order of magnitude for such an endeavor (weeks, months, years?). It uses a Texas Instruments OMAP 1710 running at 220 MHz. It's got 64MB DDR RAM and 128MB ROM. There's also an RS-MMC slot. The 800×480 display is incredible and Opera looks great on it.
I'm willing to throw some time at it, but I've got a day job to attend to.
Checked out some of changes in the omap linux mailing list: http://source.mvista.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=bb236d9666442f98d955000abbb1b88d59ae42d4
The person responsible for the android kernel coding has uploaded patches for the omap 850 to the omap linux repository.
This means that Google are actively developing for that platform, and that drivers may not be a problem. I wouldn't be suprised if this will start to pop up in the git.android.com repos.
This means that it is possible to compile a linux kernel for both the P4350 and the S710 in the (hopefully) near future.
Sounds good, though it still seems technologically little difficult, I mean to be able to run final Android platform, once available, on OMAP 850 ... if true, and I will see results, then I am sure than I will keep my P3300 for that purpose.
You got more links talking about porting and being able to in future run Android on P4350, P3300 and similar phones?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuxvOfGirGo
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2259431,00.asp
Today at Mobile World Congress, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) announced it will demonstrate an early look of the Android mobile platform in two forms: a prototype handset based on TI's OMAP850 processor that also includes TI's Wireless LAN (WLAN) and Bluetooth® wireless technology solutions, as well as an OMAP3430 processor-based Zoom Mobile Development Kit from Logic PD. Both demonstrations highlight the flexibility of the OMAP platform's multi-core architecture to deliver high-performance multimedia and sophisticated user interfaces (UI) on the Android platform.
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http://fandroid.net/
Kinda cool **** huh
Watch or Test nitdroid-emulator : nokia n8x0 on your desktop
Worth a try since qemu provide good omap emulation now :
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Watch_nitdroid_emulator_emulated_nokia_tablet_runs_android
hi,
i'm workin on linux kernel for pharos.
actualy, i search for touchscreen driver .
i can catch the pen down event with wrong value.
i need some help.
porting android is the second stage.
good news,
toochscreen work, it most be calibrated ,but it work.
so is it possible that there might be an android rom for pharos in the future?
zenned said:
i'm workin on linux kernel for pharos.
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could you say exactly how did you manage to use linux on this device? How could you write it as an OS? How do you build the OS?
wow !!
thats a big question!!!
you must be a linux user and a computer programmer skilled.
you need haret , linux kernel source, a cross compiler ( i usr this one for pharos : omap850 processor) and initrd file (as user space)
if you want to help us you just have to downlod our kernel source.
Hi.
I want to see if someone has tried to compile eUAE for Android before ? It would be cool to have a full Amiga emulator for the phone. Especially with the 1GHz units, this would probably run Workbench pretty nice aswell, and with TV Out on some devices (Galaxy I9000 etc) then this would be a very cool
The sources are located on : http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/
I have no prior experience with compiling other peoples sources for Android. I take it, it is not just Plug'n'Play
Comments are welcome....
This version is written for "big" machines (PCs) if you or someone want's to try to compile UAE for Android then check this site
Code:
http://www.embeddev.se/agroot/
here you can find UAE4ALL sources that were made for symbian made by Anotherguest eventually search for pocketuae sources for WM anyway good programming skills are needed
Hi. Yep -- but doesn't the I9000 with 1GHz memory qualify as at least a test-candidate to see how eUAE will work ? I do not mean as a "desktop" computer, but more like a proof of concept
There is alreasy a uae4droid out on Market which seems to work nice, but to my big disappointment it does not hold emulation for hardfiles and bsdsocket.library for networking.
But, to test if a quick-compile (first try) will work. Do I just have to download the SDK and maybe a compiler ?
From what I know sources must be converted to java used in dalvik vm anyway there are uae4all versions with hardfiles suport(for other platforms) i think best try will be compiling pocketuae for android (it worked really nice on TG01 with 1Ghz snapdragon cpu but had problems with on screen keyboard)but I don't know if there are sources available.Anyway I think it's matter of time when someone will relase more advanced uae for android.
Nice. Hardfile support is a nice thing. However, the uae4all developer mentioned to me that hardfile support was not natively supported in his sources. Maybe there are people who works on his sources to make it more updated then. That would be great news if that is the case.
I wonder if it would be possible to extract the network support (bsdsocket.library) from eUAE sources (WIP4 version) into uae4all. I mean, if one can re-use code from eUAE to get RTG and Network support, then this would be great.
Reading your reply, I understand that just compiling eUAE sources is not just straight forward then )))
I just purchased a Pogoplug because Arch Linux can be installed on it. It looks to be a cheap server when duly modified.
I was wondering if Arch Linux could be installed on the A500?
http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/pogoplug-provideov3
Pogoplug Pro is the first of a new variety of hardware from Pogoplug. They are based on the PLX/Oxford Semiconductor NAS7820 SoC, which provides two ARMv6 cores clocked at 700MHz.
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Debian can also be installed on the Pogoplug so I assume it can be on the A500.
I know nothing about Linux and this will be my first trial and error install.
But hey for A $16 MEDIA SERVER WHAT IS THERE TO LOSE?
Thank You
You would, of course, have to build an image of the OS as a ROM. I think there are other Linux on Iconia projects. Not sure about driver support.
I'm a big fan of Arch on my net book and desktop. It wouldn't be my choice for a tablet. I think of Arch in terms of its rolling release cycle. You would probably need to pick a point in time and build a ROM. If you could automate the ROM build from some sort of Arch virtual machine, it might be feasable.
Jim