Release Note: beagle-cupcake-0x2

0xlab is very glad to release our works about running Android on Beagle board and this release is based on the cupcake branch. We were busy on making improvements recently. This release note covers our version naming rule, the differences from the original cupcake, a brief introduction regarding how to setup the development environment and how to work with us.

Version: beagle-cupcake-0x2

Branch naming rule:

• [HW-board/arch]-[Android-branch]

Release naming rule:

• [branch]-0x[release_number]

Date: Oct 9, 2009

Release Image:

Version number comes from the SHA1 hash code of all projects' HEAD. Therefore this number can be viewed as a unique ID of this image. There is a version.txt in the root directory. It contains the unique hash code and they are the HEAD commit from each project.

• File: android-beagle.ubi
• Corresponding kernel Image: 0xkernel-beagle.bin

What's new:

What we changed since beagle-cupcake-0x2:

• Brand-new Home/Launcher with visual enhancement
• New Camera HAL with performance tweaks
• OMAP3 hardware video overlays support for OpenCORE rendering
• Automatic video output scaling
• Revised Audio In/Out support
• New software cursor from android-x86
• Volume manager supports SD/MMC and USB Mass Storage
• Dalvik VM performance improvement
• Memory leaks and race condition fixes
• ARM NEON and Thumb2 optimized bionic/libcutils
• ARM NEON optimizations for skia
• Enable oprofile for ARMv7 architecture
• early-stage porting for Busybox (linked to bionic) experiments
• Adjust memory constraints to fit high resolution display
• Introduce virtual touchscreen device on Beagleboard to satisfy more touch-driven applications
• experimental package management system

The full change log is as the attached file.

We release the source code on http://gitorious.org/0xdroid and we will keep working there.