Android on the XO-4

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 06:46:20 EDT 2013


Sorry for misleading the list. This is new information to me. Seems it
is just a matter of doing the work then.

-walter

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:33 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>>>> --
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>>>> Professor, Information Systems
>>>> San Francisco State University
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