hello_pi on Gingerbread for Rpi

[kpp]

Hi Guys,

Has any of you successfully got hello_pi working from user-land code for Razdroid.
Im running into some issues, it would be grateful if some of you have got it working on Rpi.

Appreciate any suggestions in advance.

Thanks,
kpp

[redhawk]

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... ]Currently there is no useable working version of Android for PI[/quote]
There is no working version of Android for Pi with driver support the current build of Gingerbread was a crude hack based on a phone using similar Broadcom chip.
Until someone cooks up a proper Android ROM for the Pi you're wasting time with hello_pi.

Richard S.

[kpp]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the response, i need suggestions on the below points:
1. Does hello_pi code work on the linux flavour of Rpi for video playback? (probably on raspbian)
(Currently stuck with cmake installation on Rpi)
2. If it works for linux, what would be the major change in getting it to work for Android?
The kernel changes would be minimal right?(we can use the same kernel with the android configuration and it should work)
Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,
kpp

[joan]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the response, i need suggestions on the below points:
1. Does hello_pi code work on the linux flavour of Rpi for video playback? (probably on raspbian)
(Currently stuck with cmake installation on Rpi)
2. If it works for linux, what would be the major change in getting it to work for Android?
The kernel changes would be minimal right?(we can use the same kernel with the android configuration and it should work)
Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,
kpp

Please let us know when you complete those minimal changes.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the response, i need suggestions on the below points:
1. Does hello_pi code work on the linux flavour of Rpi for video playback? (probably on raspbian)
(Currently stuck with cmake installation on Rpi)
2. If it works for linux, what would be the major change in getting it to work for Android?
The kernel changes would be minimal right?(we can use the same kernel with the android configuration and it should work)
Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,
kpp

Any hint of Android is dead in the water, just forget Android and stick with Raspbian Wheezy, if you
must have Android there are plenty of alternatives, but you will not have the large community support.

"The Raspberry Pi comes with seven sample programs and two helper libraries in the /opt/vc/src/hello_pi directory showing some of the system's capabilities and sample code"

http://elinux.org/Raspberry_Pi_VideoCore_APIs

[jamesh]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the response, i need suggestions on the below points:
1. Does hello_pi code work on the linux flavour of Rpi for video playback? (probably on raspbian)
(Currently stuck with cmake installation on Rpi)
2. If it works for linux, what would be the major change in getting it to work for Android?
The kernel changes would be minimal right?(we can use the same kernel with the android configuration and it should work)
Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,
kpp

Any hint of Android is dead in the water, just forget Android and stick with Raspbian Wheezy, if you
must have Android there are plenty of alternatives, but you will not have the large community support.

"The Raspberry Pi comes with seven sample programs and two helper libraries in the /opt/vc/src/hello_pi directory showing some of the system's capabilities and sample code"

http://elinux.org/Raspberry_Pi_VideoCore_APIs

As far as I know there are people working on porting Android - so I wouldn't say it's completely dead. Whether the efforts will ever get a decent working version going I don't know.

[fruitoftheloom]

"As far as I know there are people working on porting Android - so I wouldn't say it's completely dead. Whether the efforts will ever get a decent working version going I don't know"

Yes well it has been TWO YEARS and still no Android which is ""stable"" http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 73&t=71658

[jamesh]

"As far as I know there are people working on porting Android - so I wouldn't say it's completely dead. Whether the efforts will ever get a decent working version going I don't know"

Yes well it has been TWO YEARS and still no Android which is ""stable"" http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 73&t=71658

Did you read the "Whether the efforts will ever get a decent working version going I don't know" bit?

[fruitoftheloom]

"As far as I know there are people working on porting Android - so I wouldn't say it's completely dead. Whether the efforts will ever get a decent working version going I don't know"

Yes well it has been TWO YEARS and still no Android which is ""stable"" http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 73&t=71658

Did you read the "Whether the efforts will ever get a decent working version going I don't know" bit?

Yes I did and feel 2 years should be emphasised to anyone who feels that Android should be a god given right...............

[jamesh]

I think if the Foundation had any interest in Android, it would have been done by now. There's a lot of expertise at Broadcom that could have done it pretty quickly. But there simply is no real educational need for it, and that is where the Foundation spends its money. So blowing a load of cash at Brcm for Android is simply not worth it.

But it does require quite a bit of effort to get it working, and I guess that's where any community effort falls down. Lack of people and lack of expertise.