At Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel which they marketed to handset makers ..
I'm not sure it's wise to cite a source edited by 12 year olds as definitive; in any case, I can't find anything about the actual Android operating system prior to Google.com's acquisition.DutchDaemon said:
bleakwind said:Why? Why? Why? :\
SirDice said:Suppose FreeBSD fully works on ARM, what else would it need to make a FreeBSD based smartphone?
I imagine we'd need some sort of library and/or driver to communicate to the radio ROM?
Yes. That's one of the few closed components of Android devices, so I guess a FreeBSD phone would probably need manufacturer support for more than WiFi support.SirDice said:I imagine we'd need some sort of library and/or driver to communicate to the radio ROM?
aragon said:Yes. That's one of the few closed components of Android devices, so I guess a FreeBSD phone would probably need manufacturer support for more than WiFi support.
oliverh said:Android uses the Linux kernel because of the drivers and it uses NetBSD libc because of better portability. So it's no real GNU/Linux, it's the best of different worlds.
http://thereplaced.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-android-and-bsd-code.html
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the above project is for porting the SDK only to FreeBSD?bleakwind said:I found this:
http://bsdroid.org
aragon said:Yes. That's one of the few closed components of Android devices, so I guess a FreeBSD phone would probably need manufacturer support for more than WiFi support.
That is what it is, but even as such, that's pretty dang useful.aragon said:Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the above project is for porting the SDK only to FreeBSD?
It's bad business to be as such.SirDice said:It's a good question, one I've been wondering myself. If they used FreeBSD as a base they wouldn't have to release the source code. Something they seem to be reluctant to do anyway.
UNIXgod said:If it did maybe we wouldn't have dropped calls and battery killin crashed apps.
SirDice said:Suppose FreeBSD fully works on ARM, what else would it need to make a FreeBSD based smartphone?
I imagine we'd need some sort of library and/or driver to communicate to the radio ROM?
Bentley said:Android recently switched /bin/sh to mksh, which is based on OpenBSD’s ksh.
mksh is a DFSG-free and OSD-compliant (and OSI approved) successor to pdksh, developed as part of the MirOS Project as native Bourne/POSIX/korn shell for MirOS BSD, but also to be readily available under other UNIX®-like operating systems.