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Trying Linaro Jellybean Android on TI’s Panda board
Overview This post takes you through trying a prebuilt build on a TI Panda and then reproducing that exact build from source. Try the Prebuilt Build Go to Jellybean Panda build 20 and go through the instructions on the page … Continue reading
Trying Linaro Jellybean Android on Samsung’s Origen board
Overview This post takes you through trying a prebuilt build on a Samsung Origen and then reproducing that exact build. Try the Prebuilt Build Go to Jellybean Origen build 22 and go through the instructions on the page to try … Continue reading
Linaro Android Highlights 3/28 – 4/3
Linaro Android now at 4.0.4 Released Android 5.0 Completed big.LITTLE system tests Fixed WiFi bug on Origen See all the highlights at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Meetings/2012-04-04
Linaro Android 12.03 Preview Release Candidate 1
The first Linaro Android 12.03 preview releases have been completed. All of these boot and do generally useful things. Enjoy! For the moment, get howto information for each build by looking at its tip build. To find the tip build, … Continue reading
Compiling the Snowball ICS Build from Scratch
What’s better than flashy videos of Snowball running ICS? Snowball Running ICS from http://android-build.linaro.org …or trying a prebuilt ICS out for yourself on Snowball? Instructions and Binaries Getting the source and compiling it yourself! mkdir bin export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo … Continue reading
The Second Android 11.10 Pre-Release is Out!
The second Android pre-release is done and has been tested. Overview Each build is based on Android 2.3.5 and has been compiled with Linaro’s 11.10 GCC 4.6 release, with -O3 and strict-aliasing turned on. Tracking builds are based on “Androidized” … Continue reading
Bored? Try Angry Birds Rio on the Panda board!
Angry Birds Rio runs on the first 11.10 Panda staging build! For these instructions, you need a PC running Ubuntu 11.04 or later. You also need to get the Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/ and install it. Also download the apk … Continue reading
11.09 Linaro Android Release Candidates are Available
We’ve all been hard at work creating the best Linaro Android release yet! Visit these links to tryout each build: Staging Panda https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-panda-11.09-release/#build=1 Panda https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/panda-11.09-release/#build=4 Beagle https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/beagle-11.09-release/#build=4 Beagle xM https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/beagle-11.09-release/#build=4 Staging Snowball https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-snowball-11.09-release/#build=1 Staging Origen https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-origen-11.09-release/#build=2 Staging iMX53 https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-imx53-11.09-release/#build=1 Here’s … Continue reading
The 11.09 Android Toolchain has been Benchmarked
Andy Doan has put together the Android benchmarks for the 11.09 toolchain. You can check it out here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidToolchainBenchmarking/2011-09 Older benchmarks can be found at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidToolchainBenchmarking Summary skia continues to show monthly improvments. cximage all toolchains score about the same. … Continue reading
Try Linaro’s 11.09 Toolchain and our 2nd Android Release Candidate Based on It
The 11.09 Release Candidate 2 is out! This is the second 11.09 Android release candidate. Each build has been built with the official Linaro 4.6 toolchain release: https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/toolchain-4.6-2011.09/ We track the tip toolchain which allowed us to release an update … Continue reading