[Gta04-owner] We need an Android kernel

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Le mercredi 17 juillet 2013 à 13:48 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller a
écrit :
> So I would conclude that we *can* run Android on top of our 3.7 neil-plus
> kernel [1]. We just need to configure the Android extensions and add the init ramdisk.

I just tired with a proper ramdisk (initramfs). So the UI starts but
input needs to be corrected (I think I know how). The 3.7 kernel lacks
Android USB Gadget support (the code is missing). Also, it seems that
OTG doesn't work. When doing suspend/resume cycles, I encountered
various segfaults (one was about I2C, another one about GPIO) that
required me to reboot the phone. That's exactly the sort of things that
wouldn't happen with a TI kernel.

I can keep going by adding Android USB Gadget support from where I can
find it. I think GNUtoo already did that in the past on Neil's 3.7
kernel, with more or less valid results.

Let's keep going with that idea for now.