[android-porting] Re: Trying to compile Android on to a Full blown ubuntu/linux distro

2009-01-16 Thread David Turner
Andrew, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:41 AM, drew wrote: > But I do have a question, isn't the IPC a standard that's already > being used for SIP phones and even your normal Telecom Provider? And > if, just if, my base premise is correct wouldn't that mean that the > current kernel just needed exten

[android-porting] Why should systemserver process ends with killing its parent?

2009-01-16 Thread bazookier
There are three kinds of process in dalvik model zygote specialized systemserver It is easy to understand when a zygote process forks child process to share the core lib with it. But why should a systemserver process terminates with killing its parent process? --~--~-~--~~~

[android-porting] Re: Porting android to S3C2440

2009-01-16 Thread George Kumar
Hi, Did you get android running on S3C2440 Board ? I am not sure what board and ARM processor version the zImage that runs in emulator is made. What hardware does the android emulator in master branch emulates. thanks. george On Jan 8, 6:21 am, leemgs wrote: > Hi, grgkumar4 > Um... > > At firs

[android-porting] Three kinds of process

2009-01-16 Thread bazookier
As for dalvik vm, we can fork three kinds of process with the three api: fork,forkAndSpecialize,forkSystemServer. Can anyone give an acute analysis of the 3 process kinds of what they can do and why they should be classified into these kinds? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ u

[android-porting] Re: Trying to compile Android on to a Full blown ubuntu/linux distro

2009-01-16 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:41 PM, drew wrote: > But I do have a question, isn't the IPC a standard that's already > being used for SIP phones and even your normal Telecom Provider? And > if, just if, my base premise is correct wouldn't that mean that the > current kernel just needed extending to s

[android-porting] Re: Trying to compile Android on to a Full blown ubuntu/linux distro

2009-01-16 Thread drew
Peace! Wow, First off I'd like to thank you guys for inputting your views. It is enlightening and exciting to see what's possibly going on with the core Linux and where Google is in the development. Google's API's do rock in making it easy to program for the Android Environment and I applaud the

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-16 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
That all sounds good, thanks. JBQ On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > The focus of this work is density, not resolution. We will be quantizing > density into a few buckets (corresponding to the existing HVGA, adding QVGA > and WVGA at the same size) which are supported by

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-16 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The focus of this work is density, not resolution. We will be quantizing density into a few buckets (corresponding to the existing HVGA, adding QVGA and WVGA at the same size) which are supported by the platform. It has always been the case that Android applications should not rely on an exact si

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-16 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
There are quite a few precedents for situations with pixel counts that are close to one another, and it'd be good if Android allowed some fuzziness in the size "buckets" so that apps that are tuned for certain screen sizes but don't rely on bitmaps so much that the value matters to the pixel can a

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-16 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I'd like to qualify that a little -- this work is to introduce support for different densities in the system, targeting only QVGA and WVGA screens that are approximately the same physical size as the G1's screen. This will not add support for larger WVGA screens that are the same density as the G1

[android-porting] Re: WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-16 Thread Dave Sparks
We are moving to a density independent pixel representation, so the specific screen resolution is irrelevant. On Jan 16, 12:10 am, anand b wrote: > Hi, > > WVGA can refer to displays of the following resolutions: >800x480 or 854x480 or 864x480 > > Can you please clarify what is the resolut

[android-porting] Re: SurfaceFlinger and HW integration.

2009-01-16 Thread Mathias Agopian
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:18 AM, F H wrote: > Thanks Mathias, that helps *a lot*. > > My brain hurts from looking at the memory stuff! > > I can now see that each client maps in the 8Mb shared memory region once. > > What I don't understand at the moment is where the pointer to the surface > data

[android-porting] Booting stock android linux kernel on S3C2440

2009-01-16 Thread George Kumar
Hi, Since S3C2440 is ARM 920T core, I thought of booting it with the kernel that I built from android tree, but bootloader (supervivi) failed to load the image. Any hints as to what could be going on. -George. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ unsubscribe: android-porting+un

[android-porting] Re: SurfaceFlinger and HW integration.

2009-01-16 Thread F H
Thanks Mathias, that helps *a lot*. My brain hurts from looking at the memory stuff! I can now see that each client maps in the 8Mb shared memory region once. What I don't understand at the moment is where the pointer to the surface data is passed back to the client - can you say at what point t

[android-porting] keypad Mapping to enter alphabets on omapzoom

2009-01-16 Thread kinnie
Hi I have ported android on omapzoom. whenever i press keypad buttons to enter URL in android browser or to store names in contact lists only it displays on digits but i want characters to be displayed Can u help me regarding this? like exact keypad mappings for android on omapzoom p

[android-porting] Re: Android on OMAP35x ?

2009-01-16 Thread Nimit Manglick
There are flood of documents available on internet to start off with. Some links are :- http://code.google.com/android/intro/index.html http://elinux.org/Android_on_OMAP https://omapzoom.org/gf/project/omapandroid/wiki/?pagename=Installing+the+System Thanks Nimit On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:47

[android-porting] Re: Android on OMAP35x ?

2009-01-16 Thread Nimit Manglick
Vishal, I have my own customized kernel with android patch on top of it. Yes keypad worked for me but only few keys as i told u earlier also. Thanks Nimit On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:47 PM, hzy.speeddra...@gmail.com < hzy.speeddra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Android is more popular now, how could I

[android-porting] Re: Android on OMAP35x ?

2009-01-16 Thread hzy.speeddra...@gmail.com
Android is more popular now, how could I join with you? Is there any how-to to follow? Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~--~~~~-

[android-porting] Re: Android on OMAP35x ?

2009-01-16 Thread vishal bhoj
Nimit, Which karnel are you using ? On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:36 AM, vishal bhoj wrote: > Nimit , > > Is it ? CAn you please check and tell me if the driver is ads7846 ? > Did the keypad work for you ? > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Nimit Manglick wrote: > >> Hi Bhoj, >> >> I didn't do

[android-porting] Re: Android on OMAP35x ?

2009-01-16 Thread vishal bhoj
Nimit , Is it ? CAn you please check and tell me if the driver is ads7846 ? Did the keypad work for you ? On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Nimit Manglick wrote: > Hi Bhoj, > > I didn't do anything specific with touchscreen. I was having my kernel > ready with > > touchscreen support and my thing

[android-porting] Re: inverted touch on ads7846 chip

2009-01-16 Thread Qingzhan Zhang
in your touch driver ,you should set the x/y/pressure's MAX value and MIN value,the android according to the MAX and MIN value to calculate your inputing values On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, vishal bhoj wrote: > when i did a logcat i get > Starting input on non-focused client > com.android.i

[android-porting] Re: Help: Boot failed when enabled Android_Power in 2.6.24 on Marvell Board

2009-01-16 Thread Qingzhan Zhang
hi mark: we use the 2.6.25 kernel ,the porting is easy:) you may try to use the common file system to run your kernel ,if the kernel run well and you can see the android power attributions at /sys, and then i think your kernel is very close to run the android:) On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at

[android-porting] Re: Help: Boot failed when enabled Android_Power in 2.6.24 on Marvell Board

2009-01-16 Thread Mark Wang
yes, it is exactly what need doing. Good Luck! On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Android Zaurus wrote: > > Hi, Qingzhan > > I ported Android 1.0 atop of Angstrom 2007.1 stable, which uses > Kernel 2.6.24 and it works fine on my Zaurus C3000 (PXA270). > > Here's the patch of power.c between mydro

[android-porting] Re: Android on OMAP35x ?

2009-01-16 Thread Nimit Manglick
Hi Bhoj, I didn't do anything specific with touchscreen. I was having my kernel ready with touchscreen support and my things got up. Regards Nimit On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM, vishal bhoj wrote: > NIMIT, > > how did you get the touch screen working ? > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:45 AM, v

[android-porting] WVGA definition in Android?

2009-01-16 Thread anand b
Hi, WVGA can refer to displays of the following resolutions: 800x480 or 854x480 or 864x480 Can you please clarify what is the resolution that Android refers to? I understand that the support for WVGA is in Android roadmap post Q1 09. Thanks, Anand --~--~-~--~~~---

[android-porting] Re: Help: Boot failed when enabled Android_Power in 2.6.24 on Marvell Board

2009-01-16 Thread Android Zaurus
Hi, Qingzhan I ported Android 1.0 atop of Angstrom 2007.1 stable, which uses Kernel 2.6.24 and it works fine on my Zaurus C3000 (PXA270). Here's the patch of power.c between mydroid/kernel and Angstrom kernel tree. http://pastebin.com/m6f01141c But, as you mentioned, ANDROID_POWER may not be a