Hi Ashwin, Muhammad, Thanks for your replies. Yes, Ashwin, I do have an FPGA and processor softcore that has Linux booting.
What I want to understand better is whether the Android build process has to be altered to obtain an image that works in the softcores of the FPGA or the regular build will work? If the builds have to be altered, can you provide pointers to what kind of alterations are to be done. Thanks, -Kumar. On Jan 8, 6:48 am, Muhammad Ali <ali.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am also working on same project ,,,, ,,,, > > see this,,, > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/6... > > Regards > Muhammad Ali. > > On Jan 7, 11:44 pm, Ashwin Bihari <abih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Kumar, > > > First and foremost you'd want to choose a FPGA that already has > > support in Linux, that'll make the porting possible and easier to get > > going. From there, you'd want to look at the RAM and storage > > requirements for Android. Most people seem to indicate that at least > > 128 MB of RAM is needed for Android. Storage wise, 256 MB of flash > > would be great.. > > > Now apart from the main processor you'll also want to think about > > things like hardware acceleration for OpenGL since Android 2.1 onward > > not having one will make the UI absolutely CRAWL..and if you want to > > do any heavy audio/video stuff then you'll need to think about a DSP.. > > > Regards > > -- Ashwin > > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:24 PM, hobbeston <hobbes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Ashwin, > > > We are thinking of an FPGA board with any of the publicly available > > > soft cores like Nios2, microblaze, etc. We have access to any > > > combination of boards/soft cores. What other information would you > > > like? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Kumar. > > > > On Jan 6, 1:53 pm, Ashwin Bihari <abih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> What kind of specs were you thinking for the FPGA? It's better for you > > >> you tell us what you were thinking of using and then get opinions on > > >> whether you need to make changes.. > > > >> -- Ashwin > > > >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:33 PM, hobbeston <hobbes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > Hi, > > >> > We are looking into porting Android on an FPGA platform. > > > >> > Any advise/pointers in this regard is greatly appreciated. > > > >> > Thanks, > > > >> > -Kumar > > > >> > -- > > >> > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > >> > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > > > -- > > > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
