[android-porting] Video Decoding Memory buffer

2009-09-09 Thread ShankarGanesh
Hi , Our SoC has hardware decoder for MPEG streams. I am trying to port the h/w codec driver to android . I want to share (mmap) decode buffers to user space . What is the prefered way to implement this use- case ? Few of them what i can think of : a) using "pmem" b) ioremap from reserved

[android-porting] Re: PMEM device

2009-09-13 Thread shankarGanesh
hat this Base address and size of this memory region should > have been reserved while booting the linux with mem = ( > TOTALSIZE - x ) ? Inputs on this front will be highly helpful . > > > -- > With Regards, > ShankarGanesh K .

[android-porting] Re: Android 1.5 ported?

2009-09-15 Thread shankarGanesh
sanyanniesunney anniesunney wrote: > Hi all, > > Which file is being referred here...i mean which file should be renamed? > how can i get a new position...is it through issuing the command given > by Pavan (i.e) > > > fatload mmc 0 8060 - to copy the contents of file > "file_name" from mm

[android-porting] Re: Android 1.5 ported?

2009-09-15 Thread shankarGanesh
Jim Huang wrote: > 2009/9/15 sanyanniesunney anniesunney : >> mmc0: new high speed SD card at address b368 >> mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 SDC 970 MiB >> mmcblk0: p1 >> Welcome to 0xdroid Image Installer >> > > It looks that SD card was about to be mounted. > >> Mounting SD card... >> mount: mounting /

[android-porting] Re: android on new platform

2009-09-21 Thread shankarGanesh
ited wrote: > hi, > > i was assigned to port android to a new mobile phone platform. i'm new > to android and the documentation available in the net did not answer > my questions so here are a few (maybe noob) questions: > > - how can i integrate the graphics and the hardware video decoder Rega

[android-porting] Re: How to autoload drivers in Android?

2009-10-12 Thread shankarGanesh
>>> I have two device drivers to load during the OS bootup. They also need >>> to be loaded early when the RAM is still plenty (more than 40MB). I >>> have tried to put the insmod's in init.rc in the root. But they are >>> not loaded at all. In the shell, I manually run the insmod's and they >>> w

Re: [android-porting] Re: boot KAMIO-1251 board equipped with a MIPS AU1250 CPU

2010-01-19 Thread shankarGanesh
Frédéric wrote: Is YAMON able to boot Android from SD? Sure? Not Sure . But, I hope there is no MMC/SD controller on AU1250 processor, so MMC slot possibly have been mapped via USB HC, hence it good to be sure that your kernel has USB HC support and related issues with mounting the fs. R