Re: [android-porting] Is it or will it be possible to install a driver through an app?

2010-10-17 Thread David Turner
Installing a kernel driver requires root access (for good reasons), applications are not allowed to do that. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Andres Buritica and...@thelinuxkid.comwrote: Hi, I saw the release of the Netflix video out adapter for the iPhone and it made me wonder if something

Re: [android-porting] what to do with hciattach for USB bluetooth?

2010-10-17 Thread Pavan Savoy
disabling starting of hciattach service from the system/bluetooth/bluedroid/bluetooth.c or take a cleaner approach of having the hciattach service do nothing, as in ... service hciattach echo usb bluetooth, nothing to do!!' or something like, service hciattach /system/bin/hciattach -l user

[android-porting] prelink-linux-arm library sizes

2010-10-17 Thread Sandeep Sahay
Hi fellow developers, I am new to Android and trying to understand how Android authors have decided the size of prelinked libraries mentioned in prelink-linux-arm.map file. For example, in prelink map file: -- libcrypto.so0xAF00 # [~4M] -- However, the size of the same