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== Porting Tutorials ==
 
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* [http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Porting-Android-to-a-new-device/ Porting Android to a new Device] - excellent and thorough paper on porting Android to the Nokia N800.
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** Has a detailed list of kernel changes and annotated diffs.
 
* http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/AndroidPortingOnRealTarget
 
* http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/AndroidPortingOnRealTarget
* [[Android on OMAP]] - excellent tutorial covering lots of different issues for porting Android to platorms based on the TI OMAP (ARM) processor
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* [[Android on OMAP]] - excellent tutorial covering lots of different issues for porting Android to platforms based on the TI OMAP (ARM) processor
  
 
== Porting Issues ==
 
== Porting Issues ==

Revision as of 12:24, 5 November 2009

This page describes various effort to port Android to new boards and new processors

Porting Tutorials

Porting Issues

  • Matt Porter (Mentor Graphics) gave a presentation on difficulties encountered while they were porting Android to MIPS and PPC processors at ELC Europe 2009. His talk was called "Mythbusters: Android" and has lots of good information.

Porting to New Processors

  • Mentor Graphics has ported Android to MIPS and PPC
  • Power.Org supported the work to port Android to PPC