Android Porting

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

Porting Tutorials

 * 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

Porting Issues

 * 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


 * Dalvik porting guide

Porting to New Processors

 * 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