[android-developers] Re: ARM Architektur

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Mr.No <f.hildt@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thx.
Second Question:
Is Android missing some of the Linux OS komponents or technologies?
because it was designed for embedded devices.

I'm not sure I understand the question, but I'm tempted to say yes.

More specifically, many design decisions relate to about 5 years ago,

where the target embedded system was even slower and smaller than an

HTC Dream, and many Linux "components" were still too weak/buggy to

be considered a good foundation for the system.

Starting from scratch today would probably give different results, but it would take

a few years to get a commercial product, etc...

Just life as usual in the embedded software development world :-)

 

On 31 Jul., 12:17, David Turner <di...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Mr.No <f.hi...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > the Android OS was designed for the ARM Architecture, am i right?
> > and the conclusion is that the android os runs only on computers with
> > a ARM processor architecture?
>
> The Android OS sources can already compile and run as ARM and x86 machine
> code.
>
> Some people have reported success porting them to MIPS and the SuperH
> architectures as well.
>
> While the MIPS port seems to be still proprietary at this point, the SuperH
> one has already been
> contributed to r.android.com (and is actively being reviewed at that point).
>
> Hope this helps :-)
>
>

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