On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Nimit Manglick <[email protected]> wrote: > One more point. > > If somehow i made it work now by tweaking here and there in android, > > will this work of mine become obsolete with future releases of android ??
Most definitely yes. > or android wil be going to maintain its backward compatibilty even it > releases with HAL ? No, android doesn't maintain any form of backward compatibility with non public APIs and HAL modules. Mathias > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Nimit Manglick <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> ok.. >> >> So can you give me a brief idea what all components / layers / framework >> needs to modify >> >> in android to support h/w acceleration (If i think to modify). >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Mathias Agopian <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Nimit Manglick <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi Mathias, >>> > >>> > Thanx for the quick response. >>> > >>> > So bottom line is :- >>> > >>> > Currently android cant use hardware acceleration of any other hardware >>> > other >>> > than G1. >>> > Is it ?? >>> >>> Not without a lot of pain, and actually modifying several elements of >>> the framework. >>> >>> > And work is going on to make it portable just like any other component >>> > like >>> > its HAL interface ?? Right ?? >>> >>> Correct. >>> >>> > If yes then when can such code be availbale to open source ? >>> >>> That's one of my top priority, unfortunately I don't know when it'll >>> be ready. "As soon as possible" is the best answer I can give. >>> >>> Mathias >>> >>> >>> > Thanks & Regards >>> > Nimit >>> > >>> > >>> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mathias Agopian >>> > <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Android is not ready at the moment to work with a different GPU than >>> >> that of the G1. We're working on it :-) >>> >> >>> >> Mathias >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Nimit Manglick >>> >> <[email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> > Hi, >>> >> > >>> >> > I have my android working on 2.6.24 kernel on TI Omap 3530 EVM, now >>> >> > i >>> >> > want >>> >> > to >>> >> > >>> >> > enable hardware acceleration onto it. >>> >> > >>> >> > As this is a very old post (more than 2 months old) , so what are >>> >> > the >>> >> > current steps / way >>> >> > >>> >> > to enable hardware acceleration onto my omap 3530. >>> >> > >>> >> > As i understood from this post that my vendor (TI here) has to >>> >> > provide >>> >> > me >>> >> > the >>> >> > >>> >> > hardware implementation of OpenGL as libhgl.so and the driver , >>> >> > other >>> >> > than >>> >> > this what all i need to do ?? >>> >> > >>> >> > Thanks & Regards >>> >> > Nimit >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Dave Sparks >>> >> > <[email protected]> >>> >> > wrote: >>> >> >> >>> >> >> You have two choices for taking advantage of your h/w acceleration: >>> >> >> >>> >> >> 1. Integrate your codecs into the OpenCore framework. You can do >>> >> >> this >>> >> >> using the exising OpenMax decoder node, or you can adapt one of >>> >> >> PV's >>> >> >> native decoder nodes to work with your hardware. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> 2. Implement your own media player (MediaPlayerInterface.h). If >>> >> >> your >>> >> >> hardware vendor already has hardware codecs integrated into another >>> >> >> media framework (e.g. gstreamer), you could write an adapter class >>> >> >> that sits on top of the media framework. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> On Nov 26, 2:20 am, Pivotian <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >> > sorry Mathias for repeating my question but every time I put this >>> >> >> > question, its overridden by some other questions and it didn't >>> >> >> > got >>> >> >> > your attention. I have some doubt regarding video codecs: >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > I suppose that Android uses the OPENCORE from packet video to do >>> >> >> > all >>> >> >> > the stuffs related to video encoding and decoding. I want to use >>> >> >> > the >>> >> >> > built in capabilities of my processor which provides Standard >>> >> >> > level >>> >> >> > encoding/decoding of multiple content formats including MPEG4, >>> >> >> > H.263, >>> >> >> > H.264. How i will use the inbuilt hardware based encoding >>> >> >> > decoding >>> >> >> > instead of Android's software based opencore ? >>> >> >> >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > > >>> >> > >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > > >>> > >>> >>> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
