Raspberry Pi is soon going to break the Linux shackle and taste Ice Cream Sandwich, reported the makers of the device.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation revealed on Wednesday that the team has been working on porting Android 4.0 on the tiny computer which still now runs Linux. While previous attempt to port ICS on the device has failed, this early build is reportedly working much better. According to the team's official blog post, the hardware-accelerated graphics and video have been running smoothly on the Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The only issue, however, is that the AudioFlinger support is still missing.
The blog also informed that currently the ICS implementation requires a different kernel and VideoCore binary image from GitHub. But the team is now working hard to combine the two code lines to produce a single common platform.
As soon as these issues with AudioFlinger and common platform are resolved, Android 4.0 will be released on Raspberry Pi devices, informs the blog.
Raspberry Pi is a $35 credit card-sized computer that comes with 700MHz Broadcomm system on a chip with a Videocore 4 GPU, an Ethernet port, an HDMI port, two USB ports, RCA video, 3.5mm audio jacks, an SD card slot, and 256MB of on-board RAM. The device also provides OpenGL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG and 1080p HD video.
