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Linaro Releases Ice Cream Sandwich Builds For iMX53 and Other Boards

Posted by timothy on from the melting-all-over-everything dept.

New submitter b0101101001010000 writes with some news for developers who'd like to work with the newest version of Android: "We've just released preview ICS builds of Freescale's iMX53, ST Ericsson's Snowball, Samsung's Origen and TI's Panda boards (AOSP supports Panda out of the box; this just contains a kernel that based on Linus' HEAD). This should give Android platform developers on these platforms a good base to work from."

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  1. What we all want to know... by Megane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is Linus' HEAD in a jar?

    (I thought it was in a .tgz, actually.)

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    #naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
  2. Re:It runs, but... by rrossman2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It says right in the info box this is an unaccelerated version running (which fits with the video) and they expect to have the accelerated version up and running in a week or so

  3. Re:Upstream kernel? by b0101101001010000 · · Score: 2

    By using a series of topic branches including an "Android" tracking branch that contains just those patches needed for core functionality Linaro is able to rebase on most kernel versions, 3.1, 3.2..etc. We keep a Linus HEAD and a last -rc version around, calling Linus HEAD "tracking" builds and -rc "staging" builds. We also have all of the enablement for each board split out into topic branches. These can then get octopus merged or stgit'd into a single tree. For Pandaboard this git has all of this broken out: http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/andygreen/kernel-tilt.git;a=summary.