We'd probably want softfp abi - on arm anyway for android emulation, but it's a fantastic idea. On Mar 10, 2012 3:21 AM, "Hui Zhang" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alison, > Thank you very much for giving a good instruction! > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Alison Chaiken <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hui Zhang asks: >> > One big target of our project is TV vendors, and they strongly wish Mer >> can support android apps. >> >> I had a contract to work on the graphics stack of an Android >> virtualization product for a startup this fall, so I have thought a >> lot about how to solve this problem. The most impressive solution >> I've seen is the one that MontaVista presented at ELC-E last fall: >> https://lwn.net/Articles/465316/ >> >> MontaVista's lxc- and cgroups-based approach is potentially fast, >> secure and stable. They already demonstrated running sandboxed >> Android apps that way. The big advantage of the newer lxc over the >> ancient chroot that so many of us in the MeeGo community used is that >> it allows quite granular permissions and resource allocation via the >> cgroups, so any tendency of malicious or just poorly written apps to >> bring down the host is minimized. Use of a container rather than >> a full VM means that exposing the hardware capabilities of the system >> to the guest processes should be considerably simpler. >> >> The video of Lappalainen's talk is also posted: >> >> http://free-electrons.com/pub/video/2011/elce/elce-2011-lappalainen-secure-virtualization-automotive.webm >> The author sent me his slides, so request them from him if you want >> to see them. >> >> I had nothing to do with MontaVista's implementation, but am just >> impressed by it. I'm not sure if there is anything special about >> their particular approach, as lxc and cgroups are part of Linux, and >> anyone could implement an Android virtualization solution that way. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Alison >> >> -- >> Alison Chaiken >> (650) 279-5600 (cell) >> http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/ >> "Laws only declare rights; they do not deliver them." Happy Birthday, Dr. >> King. >> > >
