Super fast Android Kernel

[Balcora]

I was just thinking; LLVM has become nice enough that in the normal linux world you can compile a working kernel....
I wonder if it could work in Android....
After having the code sourcery site down so i couldn't download a more recent copy of the ARM EABI toolchain.
I got to thinking; LLVM is very very very sexy.....
If we could leverage it to build a android kernel, we would also then have a very very very sexy kernel, per say... on the fly optimization etc .

Post ya thoughts.

 

[xaueious]

I think it sounds interesting. Codeaurora seemed to give me pretty good download speeds compared to kernel.org. I think the toolchain is also mirrored on github. I want to do more reading

 

[Entropy]

If our toolchain is just arm-none-eabi, then there's plenty of "roll your own" tutorials (mainly targeted at the microcontroller crowd but might work for Android work) - STM32/Cortex-M3 HOWTO: Development under Ubuntu. is what I use for my Cortex-M3 work.

 

[Balcora]

Lulz; i meant more, post your thoughts on a JIT self optimizing kernel (i.e. LLVM compiled kernel)