Android and Videocore IV

[DywasPI]

Simple, but dumb question.

Android is running on PI without hardware acceleration, but some phones with the same GPU (e.g. my own Samsung GT-5512) run fine with the same chip.

Is there any way to use the drivers on the phone to the PI's advantage?

[Cloudcentric]

Does the phone use the same SoC ? http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM2835

[redhawk]

Broadcom are apparently working hard on drivers for the Pi perhaps the Samsung's BCM21553 is different to the Pi's BM2835 only James could answer that one.
There was a video demo posted on the Pi page many many months ago I wish they never bothered now, a lot of people like myself had high hopes for Android but now not even sure it would surface.

Richard S.

[DywasPI]

It's indeed the BCM21553, not sure how huge the difference from the Pi's SoC is but same OS and same graphics chip ought to be a good sign.

As for the Broadcom team developing drivers, is it for demonstration purposes or for releasing to the PI community? That would be great indeed.

[Cloudcentric]

BCM21553 Single-Chip 3G HSUPA Multimedia Baseband Processor http://www.broadcom.com/products/Cellul ... s/BCM21553

BCM2835 High Definition 1080p Embedded Multimedia Applications Processor http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM2835

[DywasPI]

Broadcom BCM2763 VideoCore IV LPDDR2 128MB (neocore: 45.5fps, Nenamark1: 24.8fps), 1 gigapixel fill rate, 40nm

That's the mobile's GPU info, btw.