Android sources released - patches soon

Sean McNeil sean at mcneil.com
Thu Oct 23 08:03:50 CEST 2008


Hi Lally,

Lally Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com> wrote:
>   
>> Simon Kagstrom wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:56:05 -0700
>>> Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> There are only a few people that have known this, but I have been working
>>>> with the Android code base for some time and have had it
>>>> running first on a GTA01, and then later on GTA02 hardware. Now that
>>>> the Android code base has been open sourced, I will be releasing
>>>> patches to Android in order to use it with GTA02 hardware. GTA01
>>>> support has become decrepit and will need some work.
>>>>         
>
> Absolutely wonderful.  Does this mean that the Android stack will be
> as open as the OM one?  Or will there be 'binary bits' that we can't
> touch in the middle?
>   

Currently, there is only one piece of code that I can't seem to get.
That is the Google gears library. It is used by the web browser.


> <evil:rubbing-hands-together-gleefully>
> muahahahahaahaha
> </evil:rubbing-hands-together-gleefully>
>
>   



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