From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4e7404bb.270b650a.3d87.ffffc50c@mx.google.com> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:55:11 +1000 Message-ID: From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Announcing Inferno for Android phones Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2557faf8-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i enjoy working with a framebuffer. but i guess cause i have the code. the secret phone i worked on was inferno on top of plan9 (arm based). you could lazily run rio and grab the "framebuffer" that you get from /dev/screen for each window. the rendering code uses that thru rio. and the graphics manager (which they never got) ran on that. works well except i only have two of them and hardware is adhoc and bad, and most importantly the battery life is bad. i'm taking tiger for walkies so call it ... i'll give away the fb code, unless someone wants to pay for it (secret meeting in madrid). brucee On 17 September 2011 13:40, ron minnich wrote: > And the docs are the usual inaccurate awful android stuff. I'm > struggling right now just to get the fastboot step done. These tools > are just terrible, and the iffy descriptions don't help much. I guess > the churn in the android tools is such that consistency is not the > most visible result. > > I'm taking notes which I hope will help others. > > ron > > -- Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE)