Viosoft Arriba Android Porting Kit

The Arriba Android Porting Kit (Arriba APK) is designed to help developers and ODMs/OEMs rapidly design and bring products based on Android to market.

Deployed within the Eclipse environment and fully integrated with Google’s ADK/SDK, the Arriba APK consists of:

• Complete cross development environment and toolchain
• Reference Linux kernel distribution
• Reference Android port on selected platforms
• Arriba ELE source level debugger
• Compatible JTAG devices (for board/system bring-up)

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Viosoft Arriba

Arriba is a complete development environment designed to meet the needs of the embedded developers. Arriba supports Linux, Android and several other embedded operating systems providing the following features:

• Integrated Development Environment based on Eclipse IDE
• Prebuilt GNU cross toolchain
• Support for all MIPS processors
• OS aware source level debugger

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GDB

GDB is included as part of the Navigator ICS package from MIPS. See the Navigator ICS page or available from CodeSourcery

Valgrind

Valgrind is an open source programming tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.  To use Valgrind you need to apply patches to make it compatible with MIPS. Here is the official Valgrind page and the MIPS patches are here

OProfile

OProfile is a sampling profiler for Linux that counts cache misses, stalls, memory fetches, etc. It profiles everything running on the Linux system, including hard-to-profile programs such as interrupt handlers and the kernel itself.