[Toybox] Toybox on Google play. Was: Fw: [Aboriginal] Aboriginal Linux on Google play.

[David Seikel]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 06:22:41 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 06/10/14 10:44, David Seikel wrote:
> > Now that the name and logo are sorted, time to write code.  I'm
> > keeping the source here -
> > 
> > https://github.com/onefang/toyboxInstaller
> > 
> > I intend to take what ever Android tells me is the CPU, tack that
> > onto the end of
> > http://landley.net/code/toybox/downloads/binaries/latest/toybox- and
> > use that as the binary to install.  First problem, I noticed that
> > you don't always build an armv7l binary, and naturally enough,
> > that's exactly what my phone reports as CPU.  Current
> > binaries/latest is missing an armv7l binary.
> 
> You should be able to use armv5l, it's like using original pentium
> code on a pentium III. It's backwards compatable, not quite the
> optimal -mtune but eh. (armv4 to armv5 was a 25% speedup using the new
> instructions instead of the older ones. armv6 was mostly about adding
> SMP support. armv7 was another speedup but I haven't benched it, and
> it runs the old code.)

Yes I can use arm5, or arm6, or what ever is actually available to
download.  I'll just have to write code that tries to figure out which
is the one to use if the exact match is not available.  Luckily there's
not too many choices, simply hard coding them should suffice.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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