[android-kernel] Re: ARM TrustZone features

2011-01-26 Thread Earlence
I dont think any of the android phone vendors are doing anything with TrustZone. So, I'm doing a bit of my own research. Cheers, Earlence On Jan 27, 12:49 am, Abhinayak Mishra wrote: > Hey Earlence, > > Trustzone is a feature that is provided by the arm architecture , and each > silicon vendor i

Re: [android-kernel] Re: ARM TrustZone features

2011-01-26 Thread Abhinayak Mishra
Hey Earlence, Trustzone is a feature that is provided by the arm architecture , and each silicon vendor implements their own version of it. The most notable difference between vendors would be the secure monitor and secure world kernel\image interface.If your silicon supports TZ, your vendor would

[android-kernel] Re: GPL Kernel module vs prprietary driver - export information

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Stratton
On Jan 26, 12:43 pm, Disconnect wrote: > That aside, you missed his subtle change of subject - the original author > was talking about modules external to the kernel (presumably not derived > from it) and therefor not counted as "kernel code". He shifted the topic to > "kernel code" (which is cov

Re: [android-kernel] Re: Compile of Android Kernel and Android OS

2011-01-26 Thread Virgil Mihailovici
Thank for all the pointers, I gave up on MacOS compilation for now, I'm sure it can be done, but I'm not willing to spend the time right now, I'll just use a VM. I guess I did not phrase the question well though: what I wanted to ask is how to compile a kernel for the simulator? I found this http:

[android-kernel] Re: Query: Access to Linux Kernal Programs using Android SDK

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Stratton
Yes and no. You can write the gui front end within the SDK. But there is no mechanism to achieve privilege escalation of the process running the dalvik virtual machine running SDK code. So you will need a privileged back end that runs as a separate process, or a service added to the platform, or

Re: [android-kernel] Re: GPL Kernel module vs prprietary driver - export information

2011-01-26 Thread Disconnect
This should be good, given who Greg KH is (hint: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman) Despite his insistence on not having/offering legal opinions, he immediately posted one ("this is illegal, tell me who did it") and another, below ("kernel code must be gpl".) That

[android-kernel] Re: GPL Kernel module vs prprietary driver - export information

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Stratton
On Jan 21, 2:10 pm, Greg KH wrote: > All kernel code must be released under the GPL, so there's not really > a "if I use this function or not" type thing going on, sorry. untrue - see for example binary-only video driver modules -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com websi

[android-kernel] Re: creating a Linux device driver

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Stratton
On Jan 25, 8:27 pm, "jon.schell" wrote: > That is the whole of the problem.  Then as background, I said that I > already know how to copy a device driver, as I used an LED driver as a > template and used that to interface with the app, but that it's > limited to one byte with no context.  I could

[android-kernel] Re: ARM TrustZone features

2011-01-26 Thread Earlence
no one?? On Jan 22, 12:13 pm, Earlence wrote: > Is there any group working on making available TrustZone features > available on the Android platform? > > Cheers, > Earlence -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel

Re: [android-kernel] NDK Toolchain and "Unknown symbol _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_" in kernel module

2011-01-26 Thread Alessio Bianchi
On 26/gen/2011, at 12.39, Steven Coutts wrote: > On Tuesday 25 Jan 2011 21:50:32 Alessio Bianchi wrote: >> Hi, I used the NDK toolchain (arm-linux-androideabi-*) to build a custom >> kernel for the Nexus One. The kernel compiled and works perfectly on the >> device, but when I try to insert the bc

[android-kernel] Android OS Gingerbread modification for enabling of the two other modes for NFC

2011-01-26 Thread muasif80
I will like to hear from anyone who is working on this aspect. Actually I want the two other modes for my intended work and if there are people who are working on these two other modes enabling then I am very keen to collaborate with them. Regards, Asif -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...