| DrivenMad | Would anyone know how to build a image to flash to an android device?? I want to lean aboutthe boot proccess of the droidx and how i could make a native ubuntu install for it. | 06:13 |
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| twb | DrivenMad: depends on the device | 06:14 |
| twb | DrivenMad: please address the channel unless it's actually a *personal* message (like "you smell like rotten fish") | 06:16 |
| DrivenMad | ohh sorry | 06:16 |
| twb | No problem. | 06:16 |
| DrivenMad | I know from doing diffrent rooting from the original droid, droidx , and an hp tablet. they are diffrent.. something about parts of it still being locked somehow?? | 06:16 |
| twb | I'm not familiar with droidx, but you probably want to look for references for droix and "omap3" | 06:17 |
| twb | *droidx | 06:17 |
| twb | Note that rooting is not the same as reflashing; "rooting" typically implies you keep the vendor's kernel and ramdisk, and only change/supplement the userland. | 06:18 |
| DrivenMad | ok cool :) i ahve been reading about omap3 and the diffrent versions of arm (arm7) cpus.. | 06:18 |
| DrivenMad | correct, i do understand that :) | 06:18 |
| twb | If you wait patiently, one of the smarter denizens will probably tell you exactly what to do | 06:19 |
| DrivenMad | im lost on how i would even start to flashing something else. maybe a custom sbf file or something.. i have an extra original droid just screaming for something crazy on it :) | 06:19 |
| DrivenMad | awesome thank you for t your thoughts:) | 06:19 |
| DrivenMad | I have been watching some of the ubuntu for android videos.. super awesome!! looks like it will be based for the newer dual cpu devices.. | 06:21 |
| twb | DrivenMad: you can't have "ubuntu for andriod" is for vendors, not consumers. You can't have it unless you buy a phone that already has it. | 06:21 |
| DrivenMad | i would like to take the droid and make it even jsut a terminal to remote to.. to use the resources on the phone... heck there is anough to run a CS server on one of them.. i just have to get around any latency from wifi, unless i can get somekind of usb to ethernet adapter working on it :) | 06:22 |
| DrivenMad | True.. | 06:23 |
| angeloc | DrivenMad: you can build a rootfs to run inside a chroot, it's the widest used method, you can find plenty of guides on google | 06:24 |
| DrivenMad | I figure if it accually comes out, someone will figure out a port of some sort.. i hope :) or I will learn enough to try :) | 06:24 |
| angeloc | DrivenMad, you can use my rootstock branch https://code.launchpad.net/~angeloc/project-rootstock/project-rootstock to start with ubuntu-core | 06:26 |
| angeloc | DriveMad, intead of building the rootfs from scratch | 06:26 |
| DrivenMad | I have run ubuntu on the original droid in a chroot enviroment, i even got backtrack running on the droid and my hp touchpad. The trick i want to figure out is to add better support for the wifi and bluetooth in the base. | 06:26 |
| DrivenMad | awesome!!! thank you very much!! | 06:26 |
| DrivenMad | Wow fantastic!!! | 06:27 |
| angeloc | DrivenMad, i think there is nothing you can do for wireless and bluetooth support into a chroot, a chroot is a restricted world! | 06:29 |
| twb | angeloc: chroot is not very restrictive. in x86-land there are ways around it, dunno if it'd work or be worth the hassle in an android environment | 06:32 |
| DrivenMad | hehe true thats what i found out :) you are basically restrained by the original kernel.. although i have played with some wifi drivers and rebooted.. sometimes it broke it, sometimes it worked.. i acually had the wifi doing monitor mode 2 times, ran kismet very well. then after anotehr reboot broken again.. :( | 06:33 |
| DrivenMad | brb food :) | 06:33 |
| angeloc | DrivenMad, twb, loading a wireless driver into a chroot seems wired to me ... | 06:34 |
| twb | angeloc: meh, if you ask to modprobe something, the kernel will execute the modprobe outside the chroot &c &C | 06:35 |
| twb | an indirect modprobe I mean | 06:35 |
| angeloc | twb, never tried, but intresting! | 06:35 |
| angeloc | twb, of course modprobe should not be in a cherrot env | 06:36 |
| twb | Well, chroot is not a security measure | 06:38 |
| twb | If you want that you should probably be looking at LXC | 06:38 |
| DrivenMad | waht is lxc? | 06:49 |
| DrivenMad | ahh tools :) | 06:50 |
| twb | LXC is like chroot, but more. | 06:51 |
| DrivenMad | hehe i see .. chroot on steroids :) | 06:51 |
| twb | As well as changing the root of the VFS, it can also virtualize the process tree, the network stack, etc. | 06:51 |
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