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 ?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > >
>>> >> >
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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