On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:20:04 -0400 Daniel Benoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 11:33:40 you wrote: > > Here we are.... > > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-open-source-cell-phone.html > > > > time to port to Neo ! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > I'm interested to see if it will be possible to hack it so X11 software works > under android, and vice versa so that android software can be run under > X11/illume. ^.^ you'd probably need to port androids display system to run under x11. ie a android window/surface == x11 window. also emulate any other things via icccm/netwm etc. this would actually be cool. you can run any desktop you like (2007.x matchbox style, e+illume, xfce... or anything else AND run android app AND run qt apps AND run gtk apps.. AND EFL, AND java... AND C#/mono, AND...) frankly this is probably the right way to go. i'd take a look if i wasn't already busy enough. > Or if I can't have that or it'd be too slow or something.. I'd like to be > able to toggle between virtual consoles to go between one and the other or > something like that. it can always be fast. a "first" port would be getting the entire android display system working IN a window IN x11 (a virtual framebuffer). that will be entirely trivial. and still very fast (a little slower than direct-to-fb, but not enough to really worry). think mame, or all the game console emulators, or vmware, qmenu etc. basically just implemenet a framebuffer as an x11 mit-shm shared image buffer @ 16bpp - it looks like any hardware dumb framebuffer. just xshmputimage from it using cliprects to choose which regions to write to the destination window. this should be a completely trivial port and basically give u "android in a window" and should always work and be compatible with any bizarre things android does. your 2nd step is the full port (ala think wine - where you match primitives on a higher level). > And I wonder how much openmoko and debian software and other distros will > start seeping into the android designed handsets. > > I sense a golden age on the horizon :) > > -- > Daniel Benoy > http://daniel.benoy.name > -- > Daniel Benoy > http://daniel.benoy.name > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
