Yes, this is, indeed, exciting. However, only 3, low-performance, devkits are supported right now. This has got to change to where anyone can develop a BSP for their peculiar hardware, and soon. Until then, Things will just be an amusing little toy. I've got clients wanting this NOW.
On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 8:22:54 AM UTC-5, David Torres wrote: > > Hi, > > I've seen the news: Android SDK Things... amazing! > > But I have a doubt, are the BSPs open source? For example, I want to make > an improvement (or just for fun!) in a kernel driver, creating new features > in /proc entry, could I? > > In https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/drivers/index.html#benefits > it says: > > *Note:* You cannot customize the behavior of device drivers in the Linux > kernel <https://source.android.com/devices/#Linux%20kernel> or Hardware > Abstraction Layer > <https://source.android.com/devices/#Hardware%20Abstraction%20Layer> (HAL) > to add new functionality to a device > > Is thus the source code closed to developers? > > Thanks in advance, > David Torres > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/b9eb04a5-7196-4f98-8b1f-96dadb93b946%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
