Difference between revisions of "Android Porting"

Revision as of 18:53, 24 November 2009

This page describes various effort to port Android to new boards and new processors

Porting Android to a new Device - excellent and thorough paper on porting Android to the Nokia N810.
- Has a detailed list of kernel changes and annotated diffs.
http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/AndroidPortingOnRealTarget
Android on OMAP - excellent tutorial covering lots of different issues for porting Android to platforms based on the TI OMAP (ARM) processor
Some cursory notes on a port to a PXA board are at: http://letsgoustc.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!89AD27DFB5E249BA!320.entry

Matt Porter (Mentor Graphics) gave a presentation on difficulties encountered while they were porting Android to MIPS and PPC processors at ELC Europe 2009. His talk was called "Mythbusters: Android" and has lots of good information.
- See Mythbusters_Android.pdf

Mentor Graphics has ported Android to MIPS and PPC
Power.Org supported the work to port Android to PPC
- Nina Wilner talked about this work, and gave a demo at ELC Europe 2009
- see Android_On_Power.pdf

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 * Matt Porter (Mentor Graphics) gave a presentation on difficulties encountered while they were porting Android to MIPS and PPC processors at [http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_europe09/index.html ELC Europe 2009]. His talk was called "Mythbusters: Android" and has lots of good information.
 ** See [http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/ELCEurope2009Presentations?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Mythbusters_Android.pdf Mythbusters_Android.pdf]
+* [http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/porting-guide.html;hb=HEAD Dalvik porting guide]
 == Porting to New Processors ==