Not necessarily, other things may need user space code. For example, hardware accelerated OpenGL is provided as a user-space library that takes care of talking with its driver in an appropriate way.
There has already been lots of discussion on this list about porting various parts of the system; please browse through the threads here first. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Pivotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this the case for every devices that if there is a kernel driver > for each device and that driver is published properly, then we don't > need to do any modification in the userspace, correct? for e.g i have > drivers for telephony(RIL), touchscreen, display, keyboard etc, in > this case i don't need to do any modification in userspace? > > On Dec 3, 11:36 am, "Dianne Hackborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you publish a proper kernel drive you won't need to modify user space. > > Note that currently we don't support calibrating as is needed for > > non-capacitive screens, so you would need to find some other way to > > calibrate such a screen's points. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Pivotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ok thats g8. But should i need to do any modification regarding that > > > because the kernel contains the driver for touchscreen. I found > > > somewhere that we need to use "TLIB", is it true? can't android > > > directly use the Touchscreen without any modification at user level? > > > > > On Dec 2, 11:12 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes. > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Pivotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Does Android supports Touchscreen? I am using SMDK6410 which > contains > > > > > driver for touch screen, do android provide any API for > touchscreen? > > > > > > -- > > > > Dianne Hackborn > > > > Android framework engineer > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to > > > > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public > > > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
