[ACTIVITY] (Anton Vorontsov) 2012-01-16 - 2012-01-20

[Anton Vorontsov]

== Completed Work Items ==.

- Had to familiarize myself with Android internals and build process,
  i.e. set up build environment, actually build a working Android image
  from scratch (through quite a bit of hardships, heh). But now I'm
  actually able to customize Android from the kernel down to the
  userland. :-) Surely I played a bit with all this new stuff.

  That might a good question whether I should actually mess with the
  userland, but I think that familiarizing w/ Android internals is a
  good thing even for a Linux kernel guy, especially as I'm going to
  work on Android-related projects.

  And this is all was to start preparing changes for ActivityManager
  (i.e. add support for memory notifications).

- Started looking into interactive cpufreq governor. I forward-ported
  it onto latest kernels, and again played a bit with it. The bad news
  is that the governor depends on idle notifiers (notifiers, again :-)
  And the notifiers are got a somewhat cool welcome by some ARM folks.
  ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/27/391 )

  So, might be a good idea to reiterate the notifiers and cpufreq stuff
  soon. But need to spend a bit more time on the code, so that I would
  feel confident what exactly I'm going to defend.

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru at gmail.com