Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.

I'll come back to you as soon as I make some progress - probably with
more questions than answers.

Regards,
Pierre-Eric

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Thomas Zimmermann
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Something else that came into my mind is the use of the init system and
> Android system properties.
>
> We currently only support the Android init scripts. Bluetooth starts and
> stops its system service on demand. That code is currently being moved
> into the HAL module in bug 1232687. [1]  If you want to do something
> similar, you should implement this HAL interface for your Linux init
> system, probably systemd.
>
> The Android system properties are read and written with |property_get|
> and |property_set|. [2] If you need such functionality, you could work
> around this for now by implementing them for plain Linux. A preferable
> solution would be another HAL interface around the functionality. I
> don't know the optimal solution for Linux, but calling dconf via D-Bus
> seems like a viable option.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232687
> [2]
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/master/include/cutils/properties.h
>
> Am 17.12.2015 um 11:30 schrieb Pierre-Eric Pelloux:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm starting an exploratory project: using b2g on a laptop machine
>> (think Chromebook).
>>
>> I plan to use bug 731498 as a starting point for basically
>> implementing Gonk for a non-Android Linux.
>> After updating/rebasing these patches I believe some of them could
>> even be merged.
>>
>> This work could also be used as a test bed for the ideas shown in
>> Orlando presentation "The Future of Gonk".
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> (feel free to ping me to discuss this, irc nick: pepp)
>>
>> Pierre-Eric
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