Android on the XO-4

[John Watlington]

There is no Marvell bottleneck.   Marvell has confirmed that they
will provide the few binary blobs required compiled in the right way
for Android on XO-4.  We just need to provide the target version of
Android.

Cheers,
wad

On Oct 8, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not sure this helps us get around the Marvel bottleneck, but worth
>> investigating.
>> 
>> -walter
>> 
> 
> Thx. I've heard about this bottleneck but not sure what it is. Can you
> tell us a bit about what it is, or point to it?
> 
> Sameer
> 
>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>> I was at the Internet Archive for some work on Pathagar
>>> (https://github.com/PathagarBooks/pathagar). Also there that afternoon
>>> was John Gilmore (cc'd). We got to talking about the XO-4, Android,
>>> HTML5, etc. A bit of doodling on Physics, and John put together a two
>>> cylinder engine, complete with a rocker arm :-) He also suggested the
>>> possibility of CyanogenMod on the XO-4 as a starting point.
>>> 
>>> If there is any interest in this, please submit a proposal for the
>>> upcoming OLPC SF summit
>>> http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/proposal
>>> 
>>> John,
>>> 
>>> If you are in town Oct 18-20, we'd love to have you there.
>>> http://olpcsf.org/summit
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> Sameer
>>> --
>>> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>>> Professor, Information Systems
>>> San Francisco State University
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
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>> 
>> 
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