Android Ported to the Beagle Board

November 15th, 2008
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It was only a matter of time. Rupesh Gujare today announced that he has successfully booted Google’s Android operating system on the highly hackable Beagle Board.

A video of the boot process can be found below.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cetZMUWBHY&hl=en&fs=1]

His announcement is reproduced in full below with the full thread accessible here.


Hi All,

We have successfully ported (custom) open source Android to beagle
board. This is very initial version. We have tested it on MMC card
and on NFS.
Please find below link for uImage and root filesystem.

http://embdroid.homeftp.net/ANDROID.tar.bz2

You can watch Beagle board booting Android here:-

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=3cetZMUWBHY

I will get back with more details and update very soon.
Enjoy Androing…

Regards,

–
Rupesh Gujare

http://embinux.com

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