Smoku went ahead and put his experience to it and made some wonderful things. Among others he backported the n900 SGX kernel glue to our beloved (not) 2.6.27.10 franken-kernel. Long story short: Here’s handset user experience running on an A5IT!
He’s collecting his notes on this project here: http://codex.xiaoka.com/wiki/meego:archos
A5IT with handset UX
Happy hack-mas from the openAOS team!
Second video today.
We’ve supplied Furies with some updated binaries and the latest SGX enabled Froyo build from internal testing. Also checked things to make sure we will be able to distribute an image.
This video is what we got back:
Sure looks nice.
As soon as we get our hands on the necessary steps and scripts we’ll spin an Archdruid Froyo Alpha 1 image for all the impatient people out there.
bootnote: Alpha 1 should give you an idea what we think about general stability and buggyness. If you want something as stable as the Archos firmware come back in a few months at the earliest. Currently there are e.g. still power management issues that make the unit randomly freeze.
We heard some rumors already yesterday but now we’ve received a video that shows what seems to be working WiFi.
We’re eagerly awaiting the formal submission by Furies.
Andoreas sent us a video of his proof of concept for Froyo with working SGX/EGL on gen7.
If you have an WebM capable browser you should see it right here:
If not you can just download the video.
He’s currently working out the details of how to get this working in a more clean fashion and we are hopeful to find an way to get this into our future builds.
As promised earlier here’s a video of an A5IT booting Android 2.0 (eclair).
Thanks Ian for the video!
I must say that I find it amusing how people who are not capable of understanding something will call that fake.
This video goes out to you Wewewi. Notice how this time it’s not my obviously fake A5IT but an regular production unit like it went on sale.