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SunnyShah
SunnyShah

Reputation: 30517

How to port android to device on ARM9 processor?

I want to port Android on the device with ARM9 200Mhz and no-fpu support, Is this possible, Has google revealed all code of android or it is just available to partners? 

if ANDROID_PORT_POSSIBLE
{
      Is there any tutorial available for porting? 
}

Thanks and Regards,

Sunny.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 14059

Answers (3)

martinwguy
martinwguy

Reputation: 972

Someone tried making the ARMv5te code run on ARMv4t CPUs by emulating the missing instructions in the kernel. In the end they were defeated but the blog describing the efforts is a technical tour-de-force! http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973

Meanwhile someone else has succeeded by recompiling everything for armv4: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Seanmcneil3

Upvotes: 1

zxcat
zxcat

Reputation: 2114

ARMv5TE is the minimum (as said here), and some ARM9 CPUs are ARMv4. As I know you are using ARM926, which is ARMv5TE, so it's possible.

You can search google.groups - there is a lot of information. I think, you can find ready-for-compilation ARM9 sources.

Upvotes: 1

Aaron M
Aaron M

Reputation: 2563

This article might help you

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Porting-Android-to-a-new-device/

Upvotes: 2

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