General Question, basic functionality? Options

[scholbert]

Hi,

i got a simple and maybe dumb question :

Is the goldfish swimming inside the zauri or does android run native using an abstraction layer?

scholbert

[speculatrix]

Hi,

i got a simple and maybe dumb question :

Is the goldfish swimming inside the zauri or does android run native using an abstraction layer?

scholbert

android runs "on the metal" so to speak, the QEMU image was for an arm5 processor and linux OS, which happens to be close enough to the Z to make it a replacement for the qemu virtual machine.

now, android is a distro so it expects things to be in certain places, so either you install it replacing your normal Z distro, or you use a "chroot" environment to allow it to see the files where it wants yet not break the host operating system.

HTH
Paul

[scholbert]

Hi speculatrix,

thanks for the information!

I just read the short story you pointed at, in another thread:

five problems with google android:

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.c...le-android.html

Nice article !

Am i right, when i say, that all the goldfish stuff in the android diffs for zauri kernel could also be left out (because these are only virtual drivers for the emulator)?

In other words, when i make sure that android will find its system interface on a platfrom, it'll be ready to run...
So basically only dirty hacks to the device's kernel will be needed

Correct me if i'm wrong!!

Regards,

scholbert