Comments on Enea Android Blog: Working with Android on development boards

Are you aware of ARM development boards that have,...

2012-01-04T23:06:00.959+01:00

Are you aware of ARM development boards that have, or can be set up with, a UEFI boot capability?
(Needed for Windows 8 on ARM ...)

Hi JJ, ARM TrustZone is generally a part of the HW...

2011-11-16T10:14:25.873+01:00

Hi JJ,
ARM TrustZone is generally a part of the HW security block and I do not think it is included on any of these dev boards. The reason for that is that dev boards and engineering devices ship with a general purpose device instead of a high security one. This is to avoid a lot of security issues when developing, such as accidentally locking down the device. Another reason is that the security technology is often surrounded by a lot of patents and proprietary solutions making harder to obtain without a lot of paperwork.

Hey there, thanks a lot for your insight! I was ju...

2011-11-16T09:18:02.507+01:00

Hey there,
thanks a lot for your insight! I was just wondering: which of these boards have ARM TrustZone enabled?

With warm regards,
JJ

Dear Sir Your article is very useful to me,I am se...

2011-10-22T18:57:58.216+02:00

Dear Sir
Your article is very useful to me,I am searching Android for Embedded Application.
Reacently I purchased COREWIND Tyni6410 dev kit based on samsung S3C6410 (ARM11) processor with 4.3" TFT LCD/TOUCH,4 COM PORT , LAN ,USB HOST AND DEVICE,256 DDR RAM,2GB FLASH,INTERFACE FOR CAMERA,WIFI,IR SENSOR,TEMP SENSOR ETC.
Software images provided for Android 2.3,Linux,WinCE and Ubuntu.I tested everithing ok but there is no online materials for the software development.
Booting with SD ,Nand and USB provided.
adb debug facility also working and my test applications loaded working ok.
Actually I am working with Embedded System witout OS. PIC,ARM7 (LPC2148) are presently using.I don't know howmuch I can do with Android.I want good UI for my Embedded application and high end features like LAN,Bluetooth,USB,WiFi For achieving these target only I planed to learn Android,Now I think it is not so easy to interface Hardwares with Android.How can I approch for Low level embedded application?.Thanks for your article.

A lot of the framework and Android runtime is impl...

2011-08-15T19:13:53.945+02:00

A lot of the framework and Android runtime is implemented in native code using external open source libraries such as WebKit, SQLite etc. These libraries would also have to be ported together with the Android specific c-runtime (the bionic c-lib) and a lot of other thing
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Hi Earlance, We have looked a little bit into Andr...

2010-12-20T14:41:43.395+01:00

Hi Earlance,
We have looked a little bit into Android porting to different kernels/OSs. While it seems relatively straightforward to create a minimal port of the Dalvik VM there are a lot more to Android that makes lifting it to a different kernel a significant challenge. A lot of the framework and Android runtime is implemented in native code using external open source libraries such as WebKit, SQLite etc. These libraries would also have to be ported together with the Android specific c-runtime (the bionic c-lib) and a lot of other things.
When I last took a look at this (about a year ago) there was only minimal ports available, i.e. a Dalvik VM running a small proof of concept program. There may have been some more work since then but in general porting the entire Android platform including the framework to a new kernel is a major undertaking. You would probably end up having to severely restrict the API:s available on such a port and then it would not be very Android compliant anyway.

/Mattias B

Hi, nice description. My question is a little off...

2010-12-19T14:44:41.625+01:00

Hi,

nice description.
My question is a little off-topic. I am investigating ways on running the android system on a kernel other than the linux variants. Specifically, the Minix microkernel. Do you have experience with android porting to different kernels? If so, it would be good to talk about it so that I have some reference point.

Cheers,
Earlence