Hi, Has the android kernel been boot-able on any SMP hardware simulator/emulator or what-ever the platform a standard kernel linux-smp has been booted on ?
I am too interested in this aspect and porting android drivers [binder, ashmem which immediately comes to mind] to smp. So, any information that you've gathered as of now - would be helpful. regards, Pavan On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Simon Braunschmidt < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > I am currently researching possibilities to run android on SMP. Would > there be any blocking points that immediately come to your mind? > > Since android in principle (and from my understanding) is using the > standard linux process model with standard scheduling, will there be > anything that prevents the dalvik VM and the corresponding android > framework from running in an SMP environment? What about the bionic > libc? > I actually think it should be doable with the current sources, correct > me if I am wrong. > > As a starting point to test this, I considered taking the currently > ongoing work in x86 support and run it under x86 SMP. Some insight > into the x86 support would be nice, can we expect to get something > like a generic x86 PC target anytime soon? Are you aware of a project > that is working on that? > > Final target would be ARM Cortex-A9 multicore, but currently I have no > access to such hardware. > > Gruessle > Simon > > > -- --Pavan Savoy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
