As I understand it, the ARM7TDMI has two problems:

 1/ No MMU
 2/ ARMv4 architecture

afaik, Android does not support the ARMv4 architecture, but more
importantly, isn't going to run without an MMU.

Cheers,

Benno

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:25 AM, jim<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The Lego robotics kit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_NXT uses an
> AT91SAM7S256 (ARM7TDMI) processor.  How much work would be involved in
> porting Android to the Lego controller?  The Lego NXT obviously won't
> make a cell phone, but it does have Bluetooth and I can imagine some
> network applications using the Lego controller as a cheap hardware
> controller, possibly sharing code with Android communication
> devices.
>
> I'm familiar enough with the Android SDK to want to use it (though
> there is a Java ME implementation for Lego, 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeJOS),
> but ignorant about hardware and porting.  Is it possible to estimate
> how big a job this would be, and the chances of running into
> unforeseen difficulties?  TIA!
>
> >
>

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