I second that thanks.I can only follow in amazement at the progress being made (what with me being a complete linux noob),and when i say noob i mean it.Never used a linux anything until my N900.But i am amazed at its potential, and can only hope it gets the pushes it needs.But powe to up you DJ steve keep up the fantastic work and please dont forget us lesser mortals more commonly known as NOOBS lol.
A little spin-off question, but as Android is running "on" a linux kernel (am I right?) can't it just run as an app in maemo? So that we could take advantage of all the android apps, but at the same time being able to switch to the loveable pc-ish style of maemo whenever we want.
I had already started a thread around a week ago called "Easy Android".
The idea is sound, getting the idea to work is different....
Seems like it's a long shot, but you never know!
So when you kexec a second kernel it shuts down the first session or is that still live? I imagine leaving all the Maemo processes running wouldn't be the best for performance.
kexec would shutdown the previous kernel as it starts the new one, and this is the tricky part, if the ram is in a state the new kernel does not "like" it will crash, kernel panic.
Given that Android has just overtaken iPhoneOS in market share (in the US at least), why doesn't Google code an n900 build? Given it's similarity to the Droid it shouldn't be much trouble (with respect to the great efforts made here) and would add another Android device to their list.
Saying that, I'm not as naive as I'm sounding - obviously the small issue of the n900 being a Nokia device has something to do with it. Just dreaming really...
The same reason why there's no Google Maps or lots of commercial apps on the N900. Not enough userbase to warrant the effort.
kexec would shutdown the previous kernel as it starts the new one, and this is the tricky part, if the ram is in a state the new kernel does not "like" it will crash, kernel panic.
Would a kernel change be strictly necessary? If the android patches were added to titan's kernel for example, then would it be just a case of stopping conflicting maemo services and starting android?
Would a kernel change be strictly necessary? If the android patches were added to titan's kernel for example, then would it be just a case of stopping conflicting maemo services and starting android?
At this point DJ_Steve is more comfortable starting with the kernel in an existing android build, I think. Perhaps something like this could happen in the future after there is a build that works well enough.
