Which OMAP are you using? Are you aware of TIs omapzoom.org? The OpenCore codecs are already ported to the OMAP3 3430 DSP.
Elvis Dowson wrote: > Hi Vince, > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Vince <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Please keep me informed on porting Android to Xilinx FPGA platforms., > maybe we can do some work together? > > > I've got a Virtex-5 FXT variant with a hard processor (PPC440), I've > also done a recent port of android to TI OMAP. I just don't see a > benefit porting the entire android stack to an FPGA. What purpose will > it serve? > > The only use case I can think of is to use an FPGA as a hardware > accelerator for specific algorithms and codecs, using say the OpenMAX > interface, which is supposed to allow swapping of codecs between s/w > and h/w implementations. > > If you were for example developing a software defined radio, and using > android as the UI interface, now that would make some sense, but still > you're better off running android on a standard processor and > off-loading the SDR part to the FPGA. > > BTW, I'm working on integrating the Virtex-5 and the TI OMAP, so that > I can off-load computations to the FPGA and pass the results back to > the OMAP processor. > > Best regards, > > Elvis > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
