[android-kernel] Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-04 Thread Alok
Hi Greg Thanks for your response. Android watchdog is monitoring systemserver process and if it itself gets stuck because of some reasons then system doesnt restart. To handle these type of scenarios, I feel hw watchdog can be useful. Thanks Alok. On May 3, 10:27 pm, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Ma

Re: [android-kernel] Improve the Booting time in Android

2010-05-04 Thread sanjeev sharma
HI All, This I was talking on behalf of filesystem but As fas kernel booting time is concerned below are the multiple way as follows. There are four principles of reducing boot-up time. 1:Do it fast 2:Do it in Parallel 3:Do it later 4:Don't do it all. There are multiple ways in which we can re

[android-kernel] Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-04 Thread Sudeep K N
Greg, Sorry for the typo error, what I meant was if for some reason the hardware timers used for system time keeping stops, then we can make use of the watchdogs to reset the system in that scenario. As Mike mentioned it can also be used even to catch lockups and trigger reset (watchdog h/w can be

Re: [android-kernel] android vs normal OS

2010-05-04 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:18 PM, praba garan wrote: > I started reading the documentation and got a doubt. > What is the diff between developing a mobile app through Android and a > Simple J2ME program?? That has nothing to do with the kernel, why would you ask that on the android-kernel mailing l

Re: [android-kernel] android vs normal OS

2010-05-04 Thread praba garan
I started reading the documentation and got a doubt. What is the diff between developing a mobile app through Android and a Simple J2ME program?? With Regards, Prabagaran. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:49 PM, praba garan > wrote: > > I am quite new

Re: [android-kernel] android vs normal OS

2010-05-04 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:49 PM, praba garan wrote: > I am quite new to android... But you failed to answer my other questions, why? > Can any one explain how to install android and how to use it?? Read the documentation. -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: htt

Re: [android-kernel] android vs normal OS

2010-05-04 Thread praba garan
I am quite new to android... Can any one explain how to install android and how to use it?? With Regards, Prabagaran. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:35 PM, praba garan > wrote: > > Hi all > > What are the technical differences between Android

Re: [android-kernel] Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-04 Thread Mike Chan
On Droid we use the OMAP watchdog. I've found it useful to catch lockups in the kernel suspend / resume path for drivers. -- Mike On May 4, 2010 10:18 AM, "Greg KH" wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Sudeep K N > wrote: >> >>> Why is this a requirement for you to do, if you do not even kn

Re: [android-kernel] Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-04 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Sudeep K N wrote: > >> Why is this a requirement for you to do, if you do not even know >> if it is necessary? > > This is just my understanding, if more some reason the hardware timers > used for system time keeping stops, can't we use the watchdogs to > reset the

[android-kernel] Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-04 Thread Sudeep K N
> Why is this a requirement for you to do, if you do not even know > if it is necessary? This is just my understanding, if more some reason the hardware timers used for system time keeping stops, can't we use the watchdogs to reset the system? Regards, Sudeep -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+uns

[android-kernel] Title bar display

2010-05-04 Thread Revathi K J Ramanan
Hi, Is it possible to disable title bar display dynamically after setting the content view by setting the NoTitlebar theme? All the posts I have read told that any title bar changes we can make only before setContentView() call.. Thanks in advance, Revathi -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubs

[android-kernel] build libmedia for nexus one

2010-05-04 Thread Oren
Hi, Building libmedia from the git kernel will obviously not use snapdragon hardware features on the N1. Mu question is, will it even work at all with the existing HTC-provided kernel? I don't want to reflash the entire kernel, as I want the app to work on "normal" N1 phones. I'm trying to impleme