[Cerowrt-devel] anybody here hacking on android?

[Cerowrt-devel] anybody here hacking on android?

[Dave Taht]

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I am planning to add a few android devices to the fq_codel'd campground
wifi testbed this summer. It looks like the nexus 7 is well supported by
cyanogenmod, my only kvetch with that device is that there is no 5ghz
support on it, and it looks like there are blobs to be had in various bits
of that platform.

Is there a better device more worth hacking on? Is there anybody else here
hacking on a specific device?

My core criteria is being able to have deep insight into the gsm/lte and/or
wifi drivers.

Secondly I've never built a thing for android, it looks like it uses an
ancient dnsmasq (?)

http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2013q2/007135.html

and while I know at least one person on this list has got fq_codel running
on it, I have not a lot of clue as to how to track that work.

-- 
Dave Täht

Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt:
http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html

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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] anybody here hacking on android?

[Richard A. Smith]

On 05/10/2013 04:23 AM, Dave Taht wrote:

> I am planning to add a few android devices to the fq_codel'd campground
> wifi testbed this summer. It looks like the nexus 7 is well supported by
> cyanogenmod, my only kvetch with that device is that there is no 5ghz
> support on it, and it looks like there are blobs to be had in various
> bits of that platform.

 > Is there a better device more worth hacking on? Is there anybody else
 > here hacking on a specific device?

For the Ethiopian reading project we used Motorola Xooms.

http://blog.laptop.org/tag/ethiopia/#.UYzcvP1Dsp8

I'd give you one but all I have left is 2 broken ones.  They support 
5Ghz and we ran a TeamEOS build on them.

http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/team-eos/

Actually our build was and earlier build before the name changed to 
team-eos.  I also ran CyanogenMod 10.0 on the last working one I had. 
It works well.

I've built apps but not yet built a full OS build.  Building a full tree 
requires a pretty beefy machine these days and CyanogenMod >= 10 
requires you use a 64-bit os now.

> My core criteria is being able to have deep insight into the gsm/lte
> and/or wifi drivers.

The Xoom has a BCM4329 802.11n WiFi which may not be the best choice for 
you.

OLPC is currently investigating running android on the XO-4.  I'll let 
you know if we actually do a port.

-- 
Richard A. Smith  <richard@laptop.org>
One Laptop per Child