Very thanks for your very complete and clear explanation. To install android on freerunner it was very nice to have a setup script like for installing debian on freerunner.
A script that check all and do all the necessary steps (patch, compile, deploy, ecc) Why not create an open source project for building such script? It is possible to avoid the legal issues of previous portings? Or the legal issues will block any other way? 2008/11/25 Jim Ancona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Nov 24, 5:00 pm, Davide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyone can help me? > > Three people that I know of are working (apparently independently) on > Freerunner/Neo ports. (I'm not one of them!) I believe all three have > them have posted on this list at one time or another. > > One of the three, Sean McNeil, has released a couple of sample images > here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Seanmcneil3 > He removed his latest image because of licensing concerns with MP3 and > video codecs. Some of his patches have been submitted to Google. The > kernel that he has posted does not resume from suspend, and most of > the peripherals (Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth) either don't work or are very > flaky. I have a copy of his image, and it the phone can make calls > using Android, but can't receive them because there's no "answer" > button. > > A second port is being worked on by Brian Code, who has a email > address at Koolu, a Freerunner distributor which has announced a > forthcoming Android port (see http://tinyurl.com/5pnkku). I haven't > seen anything from him since an initial flurry of activity right after > Google released the Android source. Koolu has set up an Android on > Freerunner forum at http://forum.koolu.org/viewforum.php?f=10, but > it's been pretty quiet. > > The third developer working on Android for Openmoko phones is Ben > Leslie (http://benno.id.au/blog/). He says he has an image running on > his Neo (the predecessor to the Freerunner), but I haven't seen > anything from him since he left on vacation three weeks ago. > > Supposedly, Android support has been integrated into the next release > of the Freerunner kernel, and the Openmoko developers are putting most > of their effort into making the low-level functionality (suspend/ > resume, GSM modem issues, etc.) more reliable, which should benefit > all distributions in the future. > > Right now, it's a bit frustrating because there is no visibility into > the state of the various ports. There's no source repository or other > way for anyone to build their own image or contribute to the effort. > Of course it's still just a month since the source was released, so > I'm still cautiously optimistic that a usable port for the Freerunner > will come out, probably from Koolu. They're claiming a beta will be > available in December, so we should know more soon. > > Jim > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
