On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Mr.No <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thx. > Second Question: > Is Android missing some of the Linux OS komponents or technologies? > because it was designed for embedded devices. >
I'm not sure I understand the question, but I'm tempted to say yes. More specifically, many design decisions relate to about 5 years ago, where the target embedded system was even slower and smaller than an HTC Dream, and many Linux "components" were still too weak/buggy to be considered a good foundation for the system. Starting from scratch today would probably give different results, but it would take a few years to get a commercial product, etc... Just life as usual in the embedded software development world :-) > > On 31 Jul., 12:17, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Mr.No <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > the Android OS was designed for the ARM Architecture, am i right? > > > and the conclusion is that the android os runs only on computers with > > > a ARM processor architecture? > > > > The Android OS sources can already compile and run as ARM and x86 machine > > code. > > > > Some people have reported success porting them to MIPS and the SuperH > > architectures as well. > > > > While the MIPS port seems to be still proprietary at this point, the > SuperH > > one has already been > > contributed to r.android.com (and is actively being reviewed at that > point). > > > > Hope this helps :-) > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
