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TI Android GingerBread 2.3.4 DevKit 2.1.2 Release Notes

Release Notes - Nov, 2011

Introduction

This is TI-Android-GingerBread-2.3.4-DevKit-2.1.2 release based on Android GingerBread 2.3.4 for TI814x and TI816x platform.

This release serves to provide

Fundamental software platform to build Android based products with TI devices.
Give Android application developer a stable integrated foundation software.
Provide benchmark numbers to evaluate Android based solutions with other distributions on TI devices
A single release package that comprises of all TI components (bootloader, kernel, Tools), TI differentiators (like 3D graphics based on SGX, hardware-accelerated multimedia) and Android standard components.

See below table to find information on various individual components

<TBD: version details needs to be updated before release>

Component	Version	Repository (Branch)	Commit ID / Baseline	Base Repository	Base Tag
Bootloader	2010.06	http://gitorious.org/rowboat/u-boot/commits/master	00bd8d0c77581714c6647752925d8710c2f26594	http://arago-project.org/git/projects/?p=u-boot-omap3.git	v2010.06_TI816XPSP_04.00.00.12
Linux Kernel	2.6.37	http://gitorious.org/rowboat/kernel (rowboat-ti81xx-2.6.37-PSP_04.00.00.12)	8a91c9a63b354debffc454c63eca7567f41b1b2a	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2b3ea6aa16956e15f1ba8e7b70898aaacbec2237	2b3ea6aa16956e15f1ba8e7b70898aaacbec2237
SGX Release	ddk 1.7	http://gitorious.org/rowboat/hardware-ti-sgx.git	2f396962ba83d3906c2aa5eff8dd56c0baf8058f	None	None
Android Filesystem	GingerBread 2.3.4	http://gitorious.org/rowboat	rowboat-gingerbread-ti81xx-mc-dsp-snapshot-GMT20110926200120.xml	git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git	android-2.3.4_r1

For detailed information on the various software components included in the release and how to use them, please refer to the
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TI-Android-GingerBread-2.3.4-DevKit-2.1.2_UserGuide.

The Android sources, Kernel and U-Boot have been compiled with GNU Toolchain for ARM Processors from Android pre-built package
https://gitorious.org/rowboat/prebuilt/trees/rowboat-gingerbread/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3

The SGX drivers have been compiled with GNU Toolchain version 4.4.3 for ARM Processors from Android pre-built package

https://gitorious.org/rowboat/prebuilt/trees/rowboat-gingerbread/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3

Documentation

Document Name	Description	Location
User Guide	Provides instructions on how to use the TI Android GingerBread 2.3.4 DevKit 2.1.2 package. A copy of the User Guide is included in the docs folder of the DevKit package. The User Guide also gives instructions on building the Android root filesystem using Android sources maintained on rowboat repositories.	http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TI-Android-GingerBread-2.3.4-DevKit-2.1.2_UserGuide
Developer Guide	Provides instructions for Android developers to get access to Android sources for TI devices, setting up host environment for compilation and enabling debug environment to ease the app development, debugging and deployment.	http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TI-Android-GingerBread-2.3.4-DevKit-2.1.2_DeveloperGuide
Performance Guide	Gives the benchmark numbers for various parameters and peripherals	TBD

What's Supported

Device Support

This release supports the following Texas Instruments devices

TI816x & TI814x

This release supports the following platforms

DM814xEVM - http://www.ti.com/tool/tmdxevm8148
DM816xEVM - http://www.ti.com/tool/tmdxevm8168

Software Components

Following software components are supported in this DevKit:

Android GingerBread 2.3.4 release from Google Android
Android Linux Kernel 2.6.37 integrated with PSP drivers
Android GCC toolchain 4.4.3
Bootloader (u-boot)
SGX OpenGL ES Driver & Libraries DDK v1.7
Documentation
- User Guide
- Release Notes
- Developer Guide
- Porting Guide
- RowboPERF (Performance measurement) application user guide
- Software Manifest files
Host Tools
Android Debugging
- ADB Debugging over USB and Ethernet
- TI's CCSv5 using Android ADT plugins
Test and Performance Reports
- Performance, benchmarking results
- Test results from our validation
- Google Android's Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) report

Complete directory structure of DevKit

TBD

New features in this Release

TBD

What's Not Supported

TBD

Installation and Usage

TBD

Known Issues

Component	Issue Description	Workaround	Comments

Version

This is Release TI Android GingerBread 2.3.4 DevKit 2.1.2

The release is available from http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_tii/TI_Android_DevKit/TI_Android_GingerBread_2_3_4_DevKit_2_1_2/index_FDS.html

Technical Support and Product Updates

For further information or to report any problems, contact http://e2e.ti.com/android or http://support.ti.com.
For community support join http://groups.google.com/group/rowboat
For IRC #rowboat on irc.freenode.net
To raise any defect for this release please use http://code.google.com/p/rowboat/issues/list

For technical support please post your questions at http://e2e.ti.com. Please post only comments about the article TI-Android-GingerBread-2.3.4-DevKit-2.1.2 ReleaseNotes here.