[Simh] on Android [Was: (no subject)]

[Mark Pizzolato]

On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> It's a good start :)
> 
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:55:07AM -0400, Henry Bent wrote:
> > I did a proof of concept build a while back using the Android NDK. It
> > required manually compiling libpcap for networking support but as I recall
> > it was fully functional. I was able to bring up 4.2BSD on a vax780 but disk
> > access was painfully slow. I was running as root so I have no idea how well
> > it would run on a non-rooted phone. So it's certainly possible but there
> > are bugs to be worked out.

I think that trying to get libpcap included would be more effort than it 
is worth since essentially all Android devices don't have a wired network connection 
and thus would be left trying to use libpcap over WiFi.  In general, this isn't something that works too well.

- Mark