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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:34 PM, wireless <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Can the gentoo embedded, openmoko, or any other |
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> embedded linux stack run on the (verizon) Android |
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> (verizon droid) phone? |
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yes. |
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my suggestions would be to |
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1) cross-compile busybox statically for armv5tel |
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2) push the busybox binary (and symlinks) to the device using adb |
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3) download a gentoo stage3 filesystem for armv5tel |
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4) extract the filesystem to a suitable memory card |
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5) log in to the device using 'adb shell' |
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6) execute '/bin/ash' (the busybox shell) |
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7) mount proc sys dev -o bind to your memory card, where the gentoo |
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root is installed |
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8) chroot to the gentoo root filesystem |
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If you do that, you'll have android and gentoo 'running' on the device |
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at the same time. I'm not sure how easy it is to do all of that on a |
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Motorola Droid, and you might need to make some software modifications |
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to start the adb (android debug bridge) service on the device. |
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You can of course do the same with an OpenMoko filesystem image |
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instead of a Gentoo filesystem image. Unfortunately, you won't be able |
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to use the framebuffer while Android is using it (AFAIK). |
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> Isn't the Android(2.0) phone just somebody's Linux |
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> stack? If so, is it an open/hackable embedded |
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> linux stack for an Arm? |
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I would suggest that you ask Motorola to release the source code for |
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their Droid Linux kernel. Aside from that, all of the available source |
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and documentation for Android is at http://source.android.com . Note |
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that most of the 'good' Android apps are not open source - they (e.g. |
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Google, Motorola, HTC) can get away with that because the userland is |
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made available under an Apache-2.0 license. |
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If you really want to experiment, then try to modify the Droid boot |
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loader so it will boot into your Gentoo root on /dev/mmcblk0p1 or |
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something instead of /dev/mdtblockX (where Android resides). You'll |
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probably want to check out mtd-utils to do that. Warning: You'll most |
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likely void your warranty by doing so, and you might end up with a |
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bricked device. |
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IMHO - the best (current) device you can use for a hackable handheld |
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is the Nokia N900 - I wish I had one myself. |
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Good luck! |
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