On 2012-05-28 14:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:25 PM, 陳韋任 <che...@iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: >> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 02:51:29PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> Am 26.05.2012 07:55, schrieb 陳韋任: >>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 06:13:25PM -0400, Ira Ray Jenkins wrote: >>>>> I found a GSOC11 project that attempted to port the Android "Goldfish" >>>>> platform to mainline QEMU. Was this project successful, or is this >>>>> currently being worked on? >>>> >>>> The author sent the patchset last year [1], but apparently it not get >>>> merged >>>> into trunk. I don't know why. :) >>> >>> Presumably because the student didn't react to any of the review >>> comments and never sent a fixed v2. >> >> It would be great if we can bring it back. ;) > > Is goldfish still a relevant Android dev platform? In other words - > would goldfish be useful to Android developers or just cool for QEMU > hackers and "old-school" Android enthusiasts?
It's still the base of the emulator you get with current SDKs. FWIW, latest AOSP (today's git checkout) built for the vbox_x86-eng target runs nicely in QEMU/KVM (using the intermediate disk image "android_disk.img"). So, adding device models to improve this environment would likely be more helpful to provide a first alternative to the Android emulator. And it's likely a lower hanging fruit. And a much sweeter one (KVM makes it pretty fast :) ). Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
