new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner

[Warren Baird]

Hi Neils,
It's unfortunate that Koolu has gone unresponsive.   I know maddog was at
one point reading this list - if he still is, perhaps he can comment on the
status of things.

The google code wiki is kinda sparse (understandable since it's so new), and
the android sections on the openmoko wiki seem to be quite out of date.

Is there a summary somewhere around what works and what doesn't, and how
close it is to being usable as an 'every day' phone?

Warren


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Niels Heyvaert
<nielsheyvaert at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> As some of you might know, it appears that Koolu is no longer working on
> migrating Android to Freerunner. The community has tried to contact the
> Koolu people to get some sense of direction (including Jon Mad Dog Hall),
> but no response.
>
> Because of the lack of direction, it was difficult to assess the risk of
> Koolu pulling the plug and thereby loosing the code (including community
> patches), mailinglist etc. The community therefore decided to start hosting
> the code and mailinglist. This was announced yesterday, September 20th.
>
> On top of this, the community immediately released their first release of
> Android Cupcake! Version 0.1 of Android Cupcake for the Freerunner is now
> available for download. For those of you who've already tried Android, it is
> a well functioning (and pollished!) distro for your Freerunner.
>
> Let's hope the project can keep and gain some momentum. If you wan to try
> and be part if it, everything is at your disposal.
>
> I'll also try to put this in the community updates.
>
> All details are in Jim Ancona's mail.
>
> Niels.
>
>
> Message by Jim Ancona:
>
> --
> I'm glad to announce a new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner!
>
> It's basically a merge of the Koolu code with Michael Trimarchi's
> enhancements and a few bug fixes and cosmetic things I've added. You can
> download it at our new Google Code site:
> http://android-on-freerunner.googlecode.com/files/android-on-freerunner-cupcake-0.1.zip
>
> Installation instructions are the same as for the recent Koolu betas:
> - Unpack the files on to a FAT formatted SD card.
> - Insert card into the Freerunner, and boot from NOR menu (hold AUX key,
> then power)
> - Choose Boot from SD Card (FAT and ext2)
> The automated install process should begin.
>
> It installs the Qi bootloader, reboots, the kernel, reboots, then installs
> the system image.
>
> *NOTE:*
> This install process overwrites *everything* on the NAND inthe phone,
> including the bootloader. If this is not what you would like to do, please
> don't install this release!
>
> We'd love to have an SDcard installer, if someone would like to contribute
> it. The Google Code site includes a bug tracker. We've got a couple bugs
> added already. Please add any others you find. The code for the release is
> hosted at Gitorious, because Google Code doesn't support Git. The consensus
> of the discussions here seemed to be that we should have our own mailing
> list, so I've also created one at Google Groups. The URL to join it is below
>
> I'd really like this to become a real community project, so please help by
> contributing what you can. Not money, but bug reports (or even better, bug
> reports with patches), other code, or documentation. We have a wiki at the
> Google Code site. Anyone who would like to create content for it, please
> contact me and I'll add you to the project. I hope we can create a vibrant
> community around Android on Freerunner, and that you can help!
>
> Jim Ancona
>
> Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/
> Git repository: http://gitorious.org/android-on-freerunner
> New mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/android-on-freerunner
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