Brad Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Patrick Shirkey > <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 6:18:06 pm 12/18/08 "Nathanael Anderson" <wirelessdreamer@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> At the moment I just want to get Android up and running so I can tweak it >> from there. A it can now also be installed on the iphone (at least in >> console mode) it has the potential to make a great future proofed platform. >> > > I'm wondering why you want to use Android. It isn't the complete Linux > platform. What I mean is that while it includes the Linux kernel, it > doesn't include glibc (for instance). Why not just use the complete > gnu toolchain for arm? That would seem to be your better choice. So, > you must have some other goal? > I didn't realise that it was missing glibc. That's a major drawback. The main incentive behind using Android is that the dev platform integrated pretty nicely which makes it a lot easier to work with. I have looked into a couple of other options but it's hard to get into them. If you have any suggestions I would love to know about them. Cheers. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
