Android 4.0 (ICS) on Spica

[tom3q]

I have run a first experimental build of Android 4.0 (ICS) on Spica. The result isn't perfect, not as smooth as current GB ROMs, but definitely usable. There are several problems to fix yet until a first public release will be made. Of course, the build uses my Android 2.3 (CM7) BSP (android_device_samsung_spica, vendor_openfimg), with small fixes for ICS, so generally it's just another ROM based around the same base (BSP and 3.0.x kernel). I will put all ICS repositories I modified on my github page as soon as I get some time to do that. Please consider ICS only as an experiment, CM7.x has still top priority.

Status

+/- GSM (mobile data doesn't work yet)
+ Audio
+/- SDCard (no USB mass storage)
+ Wifi
+ Bluetooth
+ 2D/3D HW acceleration (using OpenFIMG, no Samsung libs)
+ Multitouch
+ GPS
+ Accelerometer
- Compass/magnetometer
- Camera
- Bluetooth audio (voice headset, not A2DP)
- Hardware video encoding/decoding
* and some little technical problems which just need a bit of playing around

More information will show up here as I get some time to work on it further and update this post.

[tom3q]

Please note that currently I'm focused only on completing CM7 for Spica, so all the works on ICS for Spica are stopped. ICS for Spica should greatly benefit from CM7 for Spica being finished, as it shares most of the files from BSP. It will also benefit from finished CM9, which CyanogenMod team is developing currently.

Also, all the work on ICS I made till this time is available on my github in case anybody would be interested in experimenting with it, but I won't be able to provide any support.