[Gta04-owner] We need an Android kernel

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Le lundi 29 juillet 2013 à 13:10 +0200, Radek Polak a écrit :
> none of the issues are fixed in kernel. It has qtmoko's kernel with
> android staging drivers enabled. All the fixes are done in userspace.

> I backported patch for android to use monotonic clock for input
> events, reverted y axis and hardcoded calibration for my touchscreen.
> It also has qtmoko's initramfs so that i can boot between replicant
> and qtmoko. Besides this it will likely have same bugs as you hit.
> E.g. gallery for me just shows thumbnails but i cant browse my photos.
> 
I see, so we're at the same point here (except for the gallery thing, I
don't have that).
> 
> So it's not very usable besides that it boots and GUI works. I wanted
> to add wifi so that it can be used for web browsing but havent managed
> to make it working yet.
> 
I will get back to working on Android devices given that the situation
hasn't improved. I plan to get back to work on Android userspace for
gta04 as soon as there is a working Android kernel.

Either trying to make an Android kernel work on gta04 or waiting for one
is a considerable waste of my time, so I prefer to leave that to
competent people and focus on what I do best, which is working on other
Android phones.

It seems to me like what happens next is up to you: either some real
kernel works gets and we can move on, or Android on GTA04 will stay in
this unusable status and people will lose interest as the hardware will
get older and older.

I think the biggest issue we have here is the DM37x platform. Things
would have been considerably better with an OMAP 3630, and the best
choice of all would have been using one of Allwinner's platform, such as
the A10 or the A13, which have a very active community of
U-Boot/Linux/Userspace developers.