Hello Khasim,

If it helps I am working with msm8960 CPU. I have kernel for it and
the binary "blobs".

I guess I could setup linaro workspace and try to follow the page
https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource and see if I can
setup something for msm8960

Is there a wiki page that describes how one goes about setting up
things for brand new hardware platform?

-Subodh

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Khasim Syed Mohammed
<khasim.mohammed@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi Subodh,
>
> On 14 January 2014 23:32, Subodh Nijsure <subodh.nijsure@credenceid.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working on project where we are currently using Android 4.1.2 on
>> our custom hardware. We are investigating moving our code based to
>> kitkat 4.4
>>
>> I am wondering about pros & cons of using google AOSP v/s using linaro
>> android distribution.
>>
>> Has there been any discussion/blog posts that would help anyone that
>> is trying to make that decision? I have done the normal search haven't
>> found anything substantial.
>
>
> It would have been good if you had given the processor that you are working
> on, generally AOSP releases are meant only for the Google supported
> platforms, in Linaro distribution we port and support other processors from
> our  members. Each release is validated thoroughly for functionality, etc.
>
> We also have latest kernels working for few processors, AOSP is on very old
> kernel versions, similarly we are on latest GCC tool chain. For every Linaro
> monthly release we also move to latest AOSP and have this validated on all
> the supported platforms. We fix all the issues found while integrating and
> porting the latest sources working on our member hardware platforms.
>
> So ideally Linaro distribution tries to be on latest of all the software
> components and thoroughly validated.
>
> We also had few optimizations done like Cortex strings on BIONIC, etc - they
> are already part of AOSP releases now. We are looking at few more
> optimization areas, will integrate them in our releases in coming months.
>
>> Also is there a published list of shipping hardware products that use
>> linaro-android distribution instead of AOSP?
>>
> No, we don't know the exact end products names, our releases are used by our
> members and there customers.
>
> Regards,
> Khasim
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -Subodh
>>
>> Note: I went through list of android related mailing list (
>> http://www.linaro.org/engineering/mailing-lists )  thought this list
>> would appropriate for this posting if not, point me right way please.
>>
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