Port Android Ice Cream Sandwich to Pandaboard(TI OMAP4460)

[mammar]

Great Great Thanks Kurt.
I will definitely check it.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Kurt Taylor <kurt.taylor at linaro.org> wrote:

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> On 20 March 2012 04:02, mammar <mammar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I am a newbie to porting and currently learning embedded systems with
>> interest in Android. So i thought it would be good learning if port Android
>> Ice Cream Sandwich to Pandaboard(TI OMAP4460).
>>
>> Note: I know that Android Ice Cream Sandwich is already ported to
>> Pandaboard but as i am a newbie so i want to learn the things from scratch
>> to strengthen my skills.
>>
>> https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android
>> I started from the above link to see how can i start porting android to a
>> board.
>>
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by porting, but it sounds like you want
> to use the Linaro tree and build Android for Pandaboard. I just went
> through this myself and blogged the process that worked for me.
>
> Check out:
> http://linuxsound.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/setting-up-an-android-build/
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>>
>> The link below gives the steps to get android source code from
>> https://android-build.linaro.org/. But there are lots of builds on
>> https://android-build.linaro.org/ and i don't know which should i get
>> for my pandaboard.
>> https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource
>>
>> I also followed the link below
>> https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/PortingToNewBoard
>> but the git clone git://android.git.linaro.org/platform/manifests.gitgives the following error
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ma/android/manifests/.git/
>> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>
>> Can someone kindly guide me in the right direction so that i can download
>> and build the right code for my pandaboard and make further changes in the
>> Android ICS code for pandaboard.
>>
>> Any sort of help will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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