Pandroid Froyo L27.8.2 Release Notes

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Latest revision as of 21:54, 20 January 2011

Release: Pandroid_Froyo_L27.8.2

Package Contents:

The tar file contains 2 folders, 'boot' and 'afs'

• Boot folder contains the boot loader (MLO and u-boot.bin) and also kernel (uImage) binaries
• Kernel has support for GFX, WLAN, BT, Ethernet etc.

• Afs folder is the Android Froyo file system

Release Features:

• Android Froyo 2.2

• External monitor via HDMI

• USB Keyboard

• USB Mouse with mouse cursor and buttons

• WLAN

• Bluetooth

• Ethernet

• GFX Acceleration

Additional features validated:

• JPEG Decode - Image Rotate, Crop, Zoom
• Bluetooth file transfer
• The issue with the screen mapping being off in the launcher page has been fixed

Known Issues/Limitations:

• GFX Hardware acceleration must be present to bring up Android UI as the software side seems to be broken. Please copy the TI GFX package contents.
• When you Zoom a JPEG image, the functionality works, but image looks blurred

Misc:

• AFS is a debug filesystem so that users can debug as they enable new features

• The new release eliminates some unwanted debug statements that makes the log more readable

OMAP Features:

GFX

• The kernel binary file in the release package has GFX enabled

• The GFX libraries can be downloaded from https://gforge.ti.com/gf/project/omapgraphics/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=181

• Copy the GFX libraries from the above ref release package to the android file system as follows:

   sudo cp data/app/*        /media/afs/data/app
   sudo cp system/bin/*      /media/afs/system/bin
   sudo cp system/lib/egl/*  /media/afs/system/lib/egl
   sudo cp system/lib/hw/*   /media/afs/system/lib/hw
   sudo cp system/lib/lib*   /media/afs/system/lib

Connectivity (WLAN and BT)

• Kernel binary available in the package has BT and WLAN enabled

• Conenctivity driver modules to enable WLAN and BT on Pandroid are included in the file system

• st_drv.ko and bt_drv.ko files are in the root of 'afs'

• tiwlan_drv.ko is available in system/etc/wifi folder

In addition to the binaries, firmware and init scripts are needed to enable the features. These can be obtained from the connectivity release package available at https://gforge.ti.com/gf/project/wilink_drivers/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=179

• Copy TIInit_7.2.31.bts (BT init script for WL127x) from the above ref release package to system/etc/firmware folder of the file system (firmware folder needs to be created)

• Copy firmware.bin from the above ref release package to system/etc/wifi folder of the file system

Boot Args

setenv bootargs 'console=ttyO2,115200n8 mem=463M root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootdelay=2 init=/init vram="32M" omapfb.vram="0:24M"' 

mmcinit 0;fatload mmc 0 0x80000000 uimage; bootm 80000000 

Reference:

For instructions on how to build connectivity modules and GFX and test them, visit

http://omappedia.org/wiki/OMAP_Pandroid_Main http://omappedia.org/wiki/L27.INC1.8.2_OMAP4_Froyo_ES2_Community_Release_Notes