Hi Sean, On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Sean McNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Third, work that I have done needs cleanup to get past Googles > high-grade review process. I have other things to do, so I honestly have > no idea when I'll get around to that.
I was one of the earlier guys to hack android onto the freerunner myself, along with Ben, Brian, etc, and I checked out your patches. We were essentially working on the same thing, but I think you were striving more to make it 'Just Work (TM)', while I was striving more for completeness. What I mean is, that I was working on wrapping most of the v5T instructions in either macros or subroutines so that the v5T code could be made almost transparently portable to the v4T code, while you bypassed most of the work that wasn't necessary at the time. I think that's what the code reviewers did not like. If you would like some organized help to clean up your code, then just point me in the right place and I'll get started. I've already written up most of what's on the wiki page (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Android), and have translated several opcodes as well ( pld, clz, blx(2), ldrd/strd(all addressing modes) ). I was calling the porting effort ANDROIDv4T. I took a break from Android for a while because a) I had some pressing things at work, b) my master's thesis needed some more love, and c) my baby boy got caught a flu, then my wife caught a flu, then I caught a flu, etc. There are still some major limitations to the FreeRunner hardware, unfortunately. Namely, there is no DSP and video / graphics support will suffer until the Glamo is opened up a bit more. I can't see video happening on Android / FreeRunner until then, and even at that point, if Android isn't patched to make special use of the Glamo hardware, it will still not work. Anyway, I did download your image - good work ;-) I haven't been able to make calls yet though (or more importantly send SMS). Hopefully the Android folks will soon finish the specs for a proper on-screen keyboard (written for Dalvik??). Cheers, Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
