Android on ARM920T phones? (like Trinity.. ;-))

[shaice]

Dear all,
as I wrote on this other post (excuse me for crossposting - please mods to close the wrong-placed one):

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=384850

there are two guys that recompiled Android for ARMv4 processor - like ARM920T, the trinity processor!!

Here you have the links:

http://benno.id.au/blog/

http://perpetual-notion.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-freerunnder-updates.html

They are working on the Freerunner and Neo1973 devices.. but the processor is the same..

Anyone out there wants Android on our beloved trinity? :-)

At the moment I have no spare time (and skills) to take the challenge.. but I hope that someone will do.

I think that with the source code the CLZ and Thumb mode issues are completely addressed.

Anyone could confirm this to me?

Best regards,

s

[alen.ruvic]

Hi,

i'm also interested to see android on my htc hermes. i'm waiting benos new blog entries to see if he was able to run the code on "Neo1973".

What is the diference between htc hermes and htc dream (g1) regarding other chips beside the prcessor?

i don't think that drivers included in android can cover all chips in hermes. can someone maybe make an list of same and different devices(chips) in this 2 devices?

thanks

[djfuego]

So this is the same OS that the G phone is sporting yeah?
If The flashing process isn't harder than the current process then I'd be up for this. Also will it brick the phone?

Need some people to test.

[piethein]

Great Topic!

More information about this here:

http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1368755%7Ca1368755

[piethein]

http://review.source.android.com/user/sean,,mcneil.com

Since the openmoko is very like the p3600 I will give these patches a try. Let you know!

[XioNoX]

That would be awesome !
Please tel us your progression.:)

[Sharkypt]

I'm waiting for a Android ROM for my Trinity ^_^

[piethein]

This is what we can try. The openmoke images are out. Since the openmoke is very like the p3600 we could give these images a try. The images are located over here.

http://people.openmoko.org/sean_mcneil/androidfs.jffs2

http://people.openmoko.org/sean_mcneil/uImage-android

We need haret for the images as well.

http://www.handhelds.org/~koconnor/haret/haret-0.5.2.exe

The thing we also need is to have a proper default.txt for haret. Who can help?

[Sharkypt]

Hi piethein,

This will replace the rom we have installed in the trinity or is like an emulator running under wm ?

We dont loss any wm rom that we have installed ?

[shaice]

Dear all,
here you have some (bad) news:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/906dcae21176d4e9#

at the link above you will find a thread I started in adroid-porting developers group.

http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/browse_thread/thread/0b3743f8151783f6#

at this link there are other infos, but let me report two msgs:

shaice:
Dear all,
sorry to bother you with (probably) silly questions but..
I own a HTC trinity that use the same ARM920T processor of Freerunner.
I saw benno's and christopher's posts on their blogs...
Is there any chance that your binaries will run on other ARM920T
phones?
Thank you in advance for any answer.
Best regards,
s


Christopher Friedt:
Hi Shaice,
In short, no (for now...)
Chris


sigh sob!

Now I'm searching for some fresh news.

Stay tuned!

s

[shaice]

uhmm reading somewhere in the group I found this post:

Jean-Baptiste Queru

3 Nov, 01:14

The shipping G1s have 192MB. Earlier development devices had 128MB,
and that wasn't quite enough to smoothly run the applications that
ship with the G1. Even if all the device's RAM could be allocated to
Android (no baseband, no framebuffer) 64MB would probably be very
tight, to the point where even foreground applications would risk
getting killed because of low memory conditions (the browser
especially comes to mind). In 32MB the system is likely to be
thrashing for memory even before it's done starting the system server
(if it can even start it at all).
JBQ



Mmmmh no good news for us.. :-/

s

[scholbert]

Hi there,

basically these are great news!!!

This is what we can try. The openmoke images are out. Since the openmoke is very like the p3600 we could give these images a try. The images are located over here.

http://people.openmoko.org/sean_mcneil/androidfs.jffs2

http://people.openmoko.org/sean_mcneil/uImage-android

We need haret for the images as well.

http://www.handhelds.org/~koconnor/haret/haret-0.5.2.exe

The thing we also need is to have a proper default.txt for haret. Who can help?

....but forget about running exactly these images on your trinity units.
It won't work :o
I don't want to digg your hope but there's a lot to do to make it real.
First:
You'll need a kernel that suits to trinity and offer some features the android OS needs.
Second:
You'll have to modify the image in jffs2 format to get loaded on trinity or build up a tricky environment to mount these image files after booting the kernel.

Have fun!

scholbert

[luks]

now that the full Android code is out it's possible!!
we can have Android on Trinity!!

please help... I cannot stand anymore WM!!

[shaice]

IMHO there is no enough memory to run smoothly android on trinity...
but stay tuned..

s

[shaice]

Dear all,
there is no hope for trinity users like us to see android running on our wonderful device.
As stated here:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-internals/browse_thread/thread/788c201e75ca7351


Android don't run on the ARM920T used in Neo1973.
In the following site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARM_cores there is a table
where are described all the ARM cpu.
Android framework is compiled for the ARMv5 architecture version, so run on
the all the processors that belong to this architecture version and also in
some cpu of the new architecture (ARMv6/v7).
Other information can be found on this site
http://elinux.org/Android_on_OMAP#Real_hardware.
Best Regards,
Andrea Bernardi


:-(

bye all
s

[didoop]

on HTC vox wat i was using 2 weeks ago they builded a ADNROID rom !!! But they have only clock working but working !!! (no gsm,no edge,no menu,....)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=368014&page=14

[vimafeje]

on HTC vox wat i was using 2 weeks ago they builded a ADNROID rom !!! But they have only clock working but working !!! (no gsm,no edge,no menu,....)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=368014&page=14

a new step per day, some time good new, other time bad news..... lets get hope that android will run on trinity... :-)